ProStores Tips and Tutorials

Missing the new Default ProStores Facebook and Twitter buttons? Even after you went to Marketing > Traffic Generation > Social Media and turned them on? Chances are that your Header template has had some edits done to it and therefore the code wasn’t added. When ProStores does a code update it won’t touch templates that have edits to them, this is so they don’t destroy all your hard work by…

Just today Google announced a great new tool, a +1 button that you can install on your store’s pages, this button lets people who visit your site recommend the page they are visiting. “+1 buttons let people who love your content recommend it on Google search ” – Google +1 Button Page We have put together a guide on how to install the Google +1 button in your store and…

I wrote this free ProStores e-book for all those, like me when I started, who feel like they are in over their heads with their store. With this free e-book you will learn how to increase sales, communicate more effectively with your customers, increase how often your links in the search engines get clicked, and much more. My free ProStores e-book is full of great tips that I’ve learned and…

If you’ve ever used the custom fields under Customer > Custom Fields to gather information that is unique to your store, you may have noticed that in the new Contemporary line of templates they have been removed completely. I have no idea why, maybe they were being used enough to warrant putting them back in or maybe they just got missed. Either way I have a solution for you. Code…

Good morning everyone. I have a few issues with the default ProStores Product Catalog/List template. So I have compiled 3 tips on how to deal with them. By default the page title starts with “Results for..”. The first 4-5 words in your page title are the indicator to Google and others of what is on the page, hence they are the most important. You need to use SSML to remove…

During a recent project for a client I was asked if I could apply bold styling to a product’s attribute text (part of which I have highlighted in red). At first I didn’t think it could be done at all and we settled for trusting that the customers would be able to tell. While I was in the store working on the product a thought hit me, “Why can’t it?…

I am happy to offer our new ProStores Google Analytics Ansynchronous Tracking Plug-in for free here on our blog. From Google, “asynchronous tracking optimizes how browsers load ga.js so its impact on user experience is minimized. It also allows you to put your Analytics snippet higher in the page without delaying subsequent content from rendering.” Its also much more flexible and advanced, as well as more accurate, you can push…

1. use an external stylesheet. 2. put your external stylesheet in your templateSet images folder. 3. reference your images in your stylesheet like so: background:url(bg.jpg); – Using no paths. 4. Use ssml to reference your stylesheet in your header template. <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” title=”style” href=”$storeVersion.images['style.css']“/>

Just a quickie for today! I’ve seen a few people using this already but I thought I’d share it with you all. <ss:if test="$cart.Details"> <p>You may also be interested in the following products:</p> <ul> <ss:foreach item="detail" within="$cart.Details">   <ss:foreach item="relatedproduct" within="$detail.relatedProducts">     <li><ss:link source="$relatedproduct"><ss:value source="$relatedproduct.name"/></ss:link></li>   </ss:foreach> </ss:foreach> </ul> </ss:if>

You can hide the size attributes on the Product/Catalog Detail page if the attribute is out of stock, you can modify it for color as well. You could take this code and modify it for other similar functions. **note** Most likely this code will only work with Advanced Tier or higher ProStores sites. **note** This snippet of code ONLY works on the Product/Catalog Detail template. You will need to do…