Block Types and Properties

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When you create a block, you need to choose a block type and also specify the block properties. The block type defines the type of information that the block contains. Block properties enable you to fine-tune the block to meet your specific requirements. The set of available properties may vary depending on the block type. After a block has been created, you can edit its properties at any time.

Common properties

Blocks have the following common properties regardless of their type:

  • Name - Name/title of the block as it appears in Layouts.
  • Wrapper - Template to border the block.
  • User-defined CSS-class - Name of a custom CSS-class that you want to use for the block. The CSS-class itself is to be defined in the file styles.css located in the theme directory of your CS-Cart installation.

Type-dependent properties

This is the list of available block types and the applicable type-specific properties:

Banners

Description One or more banners that were created in section Marketing → Banners.
Related add-ons Banners Management
Templates
Content

Filling

Block settings None

Brands

Description A list of brands represented in the store. A product brand can be defined as a feature with the Brand/Manufacturer type.
Related add-ons None
Templates Our Brands
Content Automatic
Block settings

Cart content

Description Mini-cart, a summary of the cart contents on a regular storefront page.
Related add-ons None
Templates Cart content
Content Automatic
Block settings

Categories

Description Hierarchical hyperlinked list of product categories.
Related add-ons None
Templates
Content
Block settings None

Checkout

Description Pieces of information and features that are related to the checkout page.
Related add-ons None
Templates
Content Automatic
Block settings None

Currencies

Description List (text or pictorial) of currencies supported in the store. To manage the list of currencies, use section Administration → Currencies.
Related add-ons None
Templates Currencies
Content Automatic
Block settings

Note

This block type requires commercial license.

Gift certificate verification

Description Allows customer to validate or redeem a gift certificate.
Related add-ons Gift certificates
Templates Gift certificate verification
Content Automatic
Block settings None

Note

This block type requires commercial license.

HTML block

Description Custom HTML content.
Related add-ons None
Templates HTML block
Content Box with custom HTML content.
Block settings None

HTML block with Smarty support

Description Custom HTML/Smarty content.
Related add-ons None
Templates HTML block with Smarty support
Content Box with custom HTML/Smarty content.
Block settings None

Languages

Description Language selector.
Related add-ons None
Templates Languages
Content Automatic
Block settings

Note

This block type requires commercial license.

My account

Description Links to a page with the customer’s account details.
Related add-ons None
Templates My account
Content Automatic
Block settings None

Pages

Description Hierarchical hyperlinked list of static pages.
Related add-ons None
Templates
Content
Block settings None

Payment methods

Description Icons that represent the available payment methods in the store.
Related add-ons None
Templates Payments
Content Automatic
Block settings None

Polls

Description One or several polls created in Website → Content.
Related add-ons Polls
Templates
Content
Block settings None

Note

This block type requires commercial license.

Product filters

Description Filters to find products against specific parameters.
Related add-ons None
Templates Original
Content
Block settings None

Recent posts

Description Blog posts that were created in section Website → Blog.
Related add-ons Blog
Templates
Content
  • Filling

  • Period

    Choose whether posts published “Today”, “Last days”, or at ‘’Any date”’ appear in the block.

  • Last days

    Number of days in the Last day option of the Period setting.

  • Limit

    Choose, how many posts can be displayed in the block.

  • Parent page

    Choose a page whose child posts appear in the block.

Block settings

RSS feed

Description Regular RSS feed icon. A visitor clicks the icon and adds the store RSS feed to his or her RSS reader.
Related add-ons RSS Feed
Templates
Content
  • Filling
    • Products
    • Posts (only since version 4.3.8 and only if the Blog add-on is active)
  • Parent page (available for the Posts filling type only)
  • Sort by (available for the Products filling type only)
    • Created
    • Updated
  • Other (available for the Products filling type only)
    • Display SKU
    • Display image
    • Display gross price
    • Display net price
    • Display add to cart button
Block settings

Note

This block type requires commercial license.

Shipping methods

Description Icons that represent the available shipping methods in the store.
Related add-ons None
Templates Shippings
Content Automatic
Block settings None

Store locator

Description Box showing the location of your store on Google map.
Related add-ons Store Locator
Templates Store Locator
Content Automatic
Block settings None

Note

This block type requires commercial license.

Tags

Description List of product and category tags.
Related add-ons Tags
Templates Tag cloud
Content
  • Filling
  • Limit
    • Maximum number of items in the list.
Block settings None

Template

Description A collection of various templates that represent different controls and pieces of information.
Related add-ons None
Templates
Content Automatic
Block settings None

Testimonials

Description List of testimonials left by the store customers.
Related add-ons Comments & Reviews
Templates
Content Automatic
Block settings

Note

This block type requires commercial license.

Vendors

Description List of active product vendors.
Related add-ons None
Templates
Content
Block settings Displayed vendors

Note

This block type is available in Multi-Vendor.