Requirements

• Badges VirtueMart extension is compatible with VirtueMart 1.1.9 and Joomla 1.5.x
• Badges VirtueMart extension is NOT compatible with VirtueMart 2.0.x and Joomla 2.5.x
• Badges VirtueMart extension is NOT compatible with VirtueMart 1.0.x and Joomla 1.0.x
• This extension requires code modification, it can not be installed via Joomla installer.

Only 3 generic badge images are provided (shown below), for professional looking images please visit http://graphicriver.net and purchase any that you like.



Badges is NOT compatible with Magic Zoom from Magic Toolbox, badges uses Virtuemart default image generator so it is safe to say it will not work with any 3rd party image extension.

Features of Badges extension.

• Separate category and product view badge setup
• Add your own images for category and product badges upload to
  /components/com_virtuemart/themes/YOURTHEME/images/badges folder
• Enable Badges to appear when a product is set special
• Enable Badges to appear when a product has discount
  Show a badge image or Show discount text
• Five predefined badge positions: top-left, top-right, center, bottom-left, bottom-right
• Custom badge position using CSS
• Badge for new products, define how many days a product will have New badge
• Disable badges per product
• Enable badges per product

• Add your own images for category and product badges upload to
  /components/com_virtuemart/themes/YOURTHEME/images/badges folder
• On Special - Show a badge for on Special products
  • Enable/Disable 'On Special' option, if the option is disabled (unchecked) it still can be enabled on product level.
  • Choose a Badge position from one of five predefined badge positions: top-left, top-right, center, bottom-left, bottom-right for Category view and Product view
    or
    use custom badge position using CSS
• Discount Product - Show a badge for the products that have discount applied.
  • Enable/Disable 'Discount' option, if the option is disabled (unchecked) it still can be enabled on product level.
  • Choose a Badge position from one of five predefined badge positions: top-left, top-right, center, bottom-left, bottom-right for Category view and Product view
    or
    use custom badge position using CSS
  • Show Discount Text - Enable/Disable if the option is enabled than you can show any text you want instead of an image, if disabled you can show an image.
• New Product - As the name suggests show a new badge for product.
  • Enable/Disable 'New Product' option, if the option is disabled (unchecked) it still can be enabled on product level.
  • Choose a Badge position from one of five predefined badge positions: top-left, top-right, center, bottom-left, bottom-right for Category view and Product view
    or
    use custom badge position using CSS
  • New Product Days - Show number of days the product should have the new badge.


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• Product level Badges configuration has 3 options Global, Disable, Enable for each 3 (On Special, Discount, New Product) settings.
  • Global - Uses the settings defined in Badges configuration.
  • Enable - Enable specific option in product level if the option is disabled in configuration
  • Disable - Disable a specific option in product level if the option is enabled in configuration.


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This is how Badges look on category page view

This is how Badges look on product page view

+ = Added ! = Removed ^ = Changed # = Fixed

September-20-2011 : v1.1.0
^ Updated package to Virtuemart 1.1.9, no changes made to extension

May-10-2011 : v1.1.0
^ Updated package to Virtuemart 1.1.8, no changes made to extension

February-23-2011 : v1.1.0
# Fixed expired date bug (when discount was expired badge would still show).

January-21-2011 : v1.0.0
^ Updated package to Virtuemart 1.1.6, no changes made to extension

August-27-2010 : v1.0.0
^ Updated package to Virtuemart 1.1.5, no changes made to extension

July-22-2010 : v1.0.0
+ Initial release

Customer Reviews:

luciffere  (Tuesday, 20 July 2010)
Rating:

Little bug for the badges. In theme.php the position must be relative not absolute. If have a product with all badges, that badges are not position correctly.