Jun 26
If you are looking for a way to add a “back” button to a Zen Cart page, you can consider putting the following codes into the right place of the php file.
<div class=”buttonRow back”><?php echo zen_back_link() . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BACK, BUTTON_BACK_ALT) . ‘</a>’; ?></div>
Jun 24
The title showing at the header does not only show the basic information about the page. It also gives the basic idea to the search engine on how your site is displaying at the search results.
As you can see from the following image capture, the title will actually be the main title of the search results.
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Jun 23
There are a lot of people who will want categories into the other categories (Yes, they are called sub-categories). You might be looking for way to template, add or even remove some of the layout content at the category page.
You will not be able to do that directly form the backend admin interface of the Zen Cart. To do that, you will have to locate and edit the category_row.php at <ROOT>\includes\modules\. Read the rest of this entry »
Jun 23
Zen Cart provides various shipping cost calculation methods by default, one of the mostly used method should be the “Table Rate”.
homebrewkits at the Zen Cart Forum had been asked for the setting on “Goods value postal charges Orders up to £5-00 postage charge £1-50 Order value £5-00 – £9-99 postage charge £2-50 Order value £10-00 – £64-99 postage charge £5-95 £65-00 and above POSTAGE FREE.”.
Here is our resolution to it: Read the rest of this entry »
Jun 18
There are a lot of dynamically generated text on the store front of Zen Cart. they are good in a sense that they can be changed and edit to any format you want or languages of your selection. However, it does not come good when you needed them to be presented in more of a graphical manner to suit the design.
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Jun 16
Well, there comes a time when you will ask how do I make the newly entered products not showing as new product at my cart. Zen Cart does provide a quick way for you to choose whether it is in a date range (i.e. 7 days, 14 days etc.) or the entire products list. But it just does not provide you with a quick way to define if a product to be shown is a new product or not via a few mouse clicks. Read the rest of this entry »
Jun 12
Getting the right keywords to speak for your index page is always the first thing to do to rank up your site at the search engine. By default Zen Cart uses all the categories names as the core part (plus one or two other parts) of meta keywords and meta descriptions. The following steps will guild you through the steps for making the necessary changes:
- locate the meta_tags.php from <ZEN CART ROOT>/includes/languages/<YOUR LANGUAGE FOLDER>/;
- locate the define(’HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION’, ”); and define(’HOME_PAGE_META_KEYWORDS’, ”); syntax (they should be at line 20 and 21);
- Append the description and keywords between the last two single quotes;
- Now the tricky bid came, you will to save the changes according to template override system (Don’t worry I will have that cover for you in the other article);
- If you are not sure what the template override system is, you can just save it on the existing file.

Jun 09
Banner at Zen Cart is great, and everybody wants them. There are plenty of ways that we can use the banner to fill up our Zen Cart storefront. Before we jump into the great fun with the banner, we are just going to check out the basis concept in here. Read the rest of this entry »
May 29
The whole list of Featured, Special Upcoming and New Products will be showing up when you are viewing an emply shopping cart.You can follow the steps below to disable them in showing up:
- Login to your Zen Cart store admin interface;
- Browse to CONFIGURATION >> STOCK to find the correct function to disable them from showing up.

Apr 30
Once the Google Base Feeder for Zen Cart had been installed, you will need to register/login to Google Base at http://base.google.com. You will have to agreed for the terms of use and entering some basic information if it is your first time to login.
Now, look for the “Setting” tab at the top and select “ftp account” on the subsequence menu to create the details.

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