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Overview
Shop by Manufacturer is a Value added feature for your Online Store Customers. This feature ensures Sales increase in Online Store positively. Your privileged customers are getting an extra cushioned feature to Shop by Brand and choose their products.
How to install Shop by Manufacturer Extension
1. Take a backup of the Magento files before replacing
2. Extract the files inside Magento Installation Root
Magento_App_Root folder is same as your Magento Installation directory
3. Folder structure for default theme
\Magento_App_Root\app\design\frontend\default\<default>\template
Where <default> folder is based on default theme. Please copy the template folder into your specific theme folder
For Magento 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x, 1.7.x the template folder structure would be: Magento_App_Root/app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/layer
Once the Extension files have been moved to your server,
Refresh the Cache in Cache Management in admin panel
Note: For “Drop down” and “Multiple Select” Attribute Type Attributes, we can upload the Option Images.
Steps to be followed in admin panel to setup Attribute Option Image
Step 1: Catalog — >Attributes –> Manage Attributes
Step 2: Select the Attribute “Manufacturer” in Manage Attributes
Step 3: Select “Manage Label / Option” tab in Left Side. Here you can find the “Image” text to upload images for each options. Using this Browse button of Image, you can upload the images.
Upload the images of your options
Then, After uploaded the images for options. For each Option Insert the image.
Step 4: Finally,Your option Images will get added to each Options, By inserting the uploaded Image.
Step 5: In Frontend of website in Layered Navigation “Shop by” box, You can view the Option Images
Step 6: Add the below code in style.css
.optionimage { width: 35px; height:35px; }
How to uninstall the Shop by Manufacturer Extension
Please follow the instructions below to uninstall Shop by Manufacturer extension and remove from your website.
Step 1: Go to the location app/etc/modules/ Kamtech_AttributeOptionImage.xml file
Find the line of code
and change it to
Refresh the Cache in admin panel->System->Cache Management
Step 2: Remove the file filter.phtml in the following location. This Path may vary as per the website theme/template used.
app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/layer.If there is Theme template folder then please follow this location
app/design/frontend/default/(Your Theme Folder)/template/catalog/layer
Refresh the Cache in admin panel->System->Cache Management
If you have any questions or issues, please contact technical support team via http://mage-extensions-themes.com/support/