How to Get Rid of Empty Products in Homepage

Hello,

I'm using 1.5.5.2 version. I use featured products in homepage. I wanted to show random featured products.
It's a VQMOD. It works well but sometimes I see blank, empty products there.

You can see it in the attached image.

I tried to delete products with "closed" status. But there are still blank-empty products showing up.

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My VQMOD file is as following:

Resepu wrote:My VQMOD file is as following:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modification>
  <id>Random Featured Products</id>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
  <vqmver>2.4.0</vqmver>
  <author>RamonSC</author>
  <file name="catalog/controller/module/featured.php">
    <operation error="skip"><!-- v1.5.x -->
      <search position="after">
        <![CDATA[$products = explode(',', $this->config->get('featured_product'));]]>
      </search>
      <add>
        <![CDATA[srand((float)microtime() * 1000000);
          shuffle($products);]]>
      </add>
    </operation>
  </file>
</modification>

Are all of the selected products from the featured module on the admin-end all contains images or some contains empty images inclusively?

straightlight wrote:

Resepu wrote:My VQMOD file is as following:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modification>
  <id>Random Featured Products</id>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
  <vqmver>2.4.0</vqmver>
  <author>RamonSC</author>
  <file name="catalog/controller/module/featured.php">
    <operation error="skip"><!-- v1.5.x -->
      <search position="after">
        <![CDATA[$products = explode(',', $this->config->get('featured_product'));]]>
      </search>
      <add>
        <![CDATA[srand((float)microtime() * 1000000);
          shuffle($products);]]>
      </add>
    </operation>
  </file>
</modification>

Are all of the selected products from the featured module on the admin-end all contains images or some contains empty images inclusively?

Actually there are almost a hundred featured products. It's very hard for me to look every one of them. But I don't think there is any empty image. I'm using a "admin_quickly_add_featured" VQMOD. I chose featured products by clicking these stars. You can see in the attached image.

Compare a selected product from the admin featured module with the same product that you'd see on the store-front end. One thing I do dislike about comparing is when products are being showed in shuffle mode. It hardens the troubleshooting a bit as it could require a bit more patience to find the source of the problem even though it may be ideal to show random products on the store-front end.

straightlight wrote:Compare a selected product from the admin featured module with the same product that you'd see on the store-front end. One thing I do dislike about comparing is when products are being showed in shuffle mode. It hardens the troubleshooting a bit as it could require a bit more patience to find the source of the problem even though it may be ideal to show random products on the store-front end.

I can consider using any other extension if you can recommend any.
What I really want is to show randomly the products that I chose.

Resepu wrote:

straightlight wrote:Compare a selected product from the admin featured module with the same product that you'd see on the store-front end. One thing I do dislike about comparing is when products are being showed in shuffle mode. It hardens the troubleshooting a bit as it could require a bit more patience to find the source of the problem even though it may be ideal to show random products on the store-front end.

I can consider using any other extension if you can recommend any.
What I really want is to show randomly the products that I chose.

No problem Resepu. Followed are suggestions you could look into: http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... rch=random products