Zen Cart Tips and Tricks

If you’ve got a standard setup of Zen Cart using the default template then to change the width a Zen Cart site open includes/templates/classic/css/stylesheet.css with your favourite editor.
Search that file for #mainWrapper you’ll see a line under it saying width: 750px (or whatever the current width is). Just change the 750 to the pixel width [...]

One great aspect of Zen Cart is the flexibility to change configuration options. Whether it be the number of new products to show on the front page to how the product listing page displays the products.

After posting about getting site search data from Zen Cart it reminded me of a great tip.
The site search function on Zen Cart is not great with plurals and singular words. For example if you have a product titled Dog Coat and a visitor searches for Dog Coats, that product will not show up in [...]

If you haven’t got any sort of stats gathering program on your site then you should. Stats are very important, especially when it comes to selling stuff online. I’m a huge fan of Google Analytics. A) It’s very in depth and b) it’s my favorite price; free!

If like me you don’t use the stock features in Zen Cart then it’s very annoying how you cannot de-active a product attribute until it comes back into stock. This means you have to delete the attribute then re-add it back in when stocks arrive.
What I currently do is add some text in red letter [...]