You can organize banners into groups, so they all appear in the same place in the store. Here you can learn how to manage banner groups and add banners to them.

Banner groups can be used, for instance, to create banner carousels, in which banners are displayed alternating on a timely basis. For example, in the default theme, on the front page, there is a ready-to-use banner carousel, to which you can add banners by placing them in the frontpage group.

Learn how to add banners to banner groups.

Creating the banner carousel requires modifying the store theme's HTML/CSS/JavaScript files. If you're not familiar with these languages, contact your theme's designer or our customer service.

Creating and editing banner groups

To create a new banner group:

  1. In the admin panel, go to Contents > Banners.
  2. In the left-hand pane, click New banner group.
  3. Enter a name and code name for the banner group.
  4. Click Save.

After you've created the banner group, you'll see Interface markup for creating a banner area in the store theme for the group or displaying all of the group's banners on an online store page.

Editing an already existing banner group

To edit an already existing banner group:

  1. In the admin panel, go to Contents > Banners.
  2. In the left-hand pane, select the desired banner group.
  3. In the banner group's details, click Edit.
  4. Make the desired changes.
  5. Click Save.

Sorting and adding banners to banner groups

How to add a banner to a banner group:

  1. In the admin panel, go to Contents > Banners.
  2. Hold the banner's icon.
  3. Add the banner to your desired folder in the list.

You can also drag banners to obtain the desired order in the group. To change the banners' order in a group, drop the banner in the selected location within the group. Order will be updated immediately in the store.

The store theme must allow for manual sorting in banner areas, so that banners can be displayed in the same order as in the admin panel (see the {Banners} tag's sort attribute).

Changing the sorting basis requires modifying the theme's HTML files. If you don't have any experience in editing HTML files, contact your theme's designer or our customer service.

You can also enter the banner into a group while creating or modifying the banner.

Removing banners from banner groups

To remove a banner from a banner group:

  1. In the admin panel, go to Contents > Banners.
  2. In the left-hand pane, select the desired banner.
  3. In the banner's details, click Edit.
  4. In the Banner group menu, select (no group) or another banner group.
  5. Click Save.

Deleting banner groups

To delete a banner group:

  1. In the admin panel, go to Contents > Banners.
  2. In the left-hand pane, select the desired banner group.
  3. In the banner group's details, click Edit.
  4. In the edit form, click the Delete link.

Deleting a banner group does not delete the banners it contains. However, in such a case the banners are removed from the group. If there is no banner area for an individual banner in the store theme, it won't be displayed anywhere.

To recover an already deleted banner group, create a new group with the same code name, so that it will be displayed in the same banner areas as the deleted group (provided that the banner area hasn't been deleted from the store theme either).