Storefront Feature Area

  • farfo

    (@farfo)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    I am very new to WP and storefront is the first theme I am trying as I revamp my 15 year old website. I am not well versed in code but have used child themify to create a child theme that I am editing for minor tweaks.

    With storefront I thought I would have the control to have feature boxes on the static home page that would take my customers to pages as well as product categories.

    I tried using woo features plug in which would appear to have exactly what I wanted but it does not seem to work with storefront.

    Any suggestions for a novice? I would prefer a plug in vs coding but am open to suggestions that do not crash.

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  • James Koster

    (@jameskoster)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Hey,

    If you’re using the Homepage template in Storefront then you should have links to your product categories. Please double check that you’ve created product categories in WooCommerce and that they have products in them.

    For the feature boxes, it might be easiest to just add these to your homepage content. That should work just fine.

    Best

    Thread Starter farfo

    (@farfo)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Jameskoster,

    Thank you for your reply. Maybe I’m doing something wrong with Storefrontbut I do not seem to have much control over the homepage content. It populates itself with:

    Product categories
    Featured products
    Recent Products
    Popular products
    On sale products

    Using Homepage Control plugin I can remove and reorder any of these. That’s about it.

    I would like to have 4 feature boxes front and center that link to:
    Product 1 page
    Product 2 page
    Description of services 1 page
    Description of services 2 page

    I don’t want to have any products on the home page and I want to be able to control these 4 feature boxes.

    Like I said, maybe I’m doing something wrong but I do not see any way of controlling the home page content directly with Storefront. Storefront populate the home page with my products and categories in a way that isn’t working for me.

    How do I create the feature boxes and add them to my homepage content?

    James Koster

    (@jameskoster)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Storefront isn’t going to allow you to create your own unique homepage design with custom components. It’s just a theme. You should only find that level of functionality in a plugin.

    To do something like that I’d recommend installing a page builder plugin. Take a look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels/

    Cheers

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