Homepage content

[Hlavtox]

The problem

One topic that is always there in PrestaShop is the general lack of content on the homepage. I think improving this would greatly boost the level of our theme. Let me show some examples.

Banners with highlights and current promotions

See the original design of hummingbird. On most shops, we have some kinds of banners with current promotions, we things added to the catalog, highlights of the current sortiments, free shipping banner etc. We had something like this on 1.6 and I think it would be good to keep it.

Category grid on homepage

One more way to ease up navigation, many shops have category listings on a homepage. Maybe we could reuse ps_categorytree here and just use a different template for displayHome hook.

The solution

I think some new native modules could be introduced for this.

Or, a general purpose "content anywhere, on any hook" module. I have a module like this for my clients.

Additional context

cc @tblivet @ga-devfront @kpodemski @ibahloul-ps

Do you plan to work on this subject?

• I'm willing to contribute a formal specification.
• I'm willing to provide any wireframes or design assets required for this feature.
• I'm willing to submit a Pull Request that implements this feature.
• I'm willing to help verify that the implemented feature works as intended and produces no unintended side effects.

[jeremydobber]

I totally agree. Some new native modules to choose from would be great. With the option to get rid of them of course but that is always easier to do than adding them.

I had to make some very basic ones myself for my own use, but they might not be versatile enough to fit a wider use-case.
I needed a highlight product like this:

A module to display some technical announcements:

And kind of a hero section on the home page too. Haven't done it with a background video but would have loved to find one on the classic theme years ago, when I needed it.

I am curious about your "anything anywhere" module. I am not sure I have grasped the details of it.

[Hlavtox]

@jeremydobber Cool! Banners are just the basic thing used absolutely everywhere.

Regarding my module, it looks like this. You have a page with all blocks listed:

Then when you create a new hook, you define internal name, a hook where it should be displayed, the type (HTML or PHP), it's order and validity. It displays hooks in the database in the list, but you can also just type in a new one. After saving, the module will be automatically hooked on it, no need to worry about anything.

So you can do absoutely everything:

• You can create any homepage content. Any banners, any style, category listings that is live, any conditions.
• With a time validity, you can easily define banners and warnings that hide themselves. For example - christmas opening time. You do it, set it to automatically hide on 5.1.2027 for example, and you don't have to think about it. Or, you can easily prepare homepage banners with a special action, in advance, that will be shown on Monday 0:00.
• You can get rid of almost all native modules that just limit you.
• And the best thing is that all blocks are loaded with just one single database query, so basically all of your store static content takes 2 ms to load.

[jeremydobber]

That looks nice. I'm loving it.

[Patrickclicweb]

Hello,
Yes, it's a very good idea to be able to place blocks wherever we want on the homepage.
We do this regularly for our clients.
Having a native, customizable feature would be a real plus.

[nicohery]

I also maintain a Home Content module inspired by the native ps_imageslider.

It supports drag & drop to easily reorder items, with a back-office UI that stays close to the front-office rendering.

Instead of a single HTML field, it provides structured generic fields:

• template (hero, full-width banner, container banner, text-left banner, text-right banner, featured products, featured categories, …)
• title
• headline
• image (desktop + mobile)
• description
• button (label + link)

It’s easy to extend depending on project needs (text color, additional options, etc.).

I’d like to improve it by adding an EntitySearchInputType for the featured products and featured categories templates.

I'll be happy to share this module if it can help, as it stays very close to the native modules.
Also willing to contribute if a similar official/community module is being considered.

[norbertlaza]

Can you share the module with us? I also want to use the default theme, but it lacks a lot of customization, and you have to spend a lot of time just to make it look decent.