Key Features of Shop by Brand Magento Extension:

Featured Brands Slider

A beautiful slider to display featured manufacturers is shown on the landing page.

All Manufacturers Page

A separate page for all manufacturers is created that has following features:

• Featured brands slider
• Display brands by category and by alphabets
• Brands search
• Brands filters such as ‘Most products’, ‘New updates’, and ‘Most subscribers’.

Layered Navigation

All the features of landing page are shown on the right navigation on individual brands page such as search, sign up for new products etc. You can display brands in a list view or drop down on right navigation.

Brands Manager

All manufacturers are shown in a grid view on the backend. When creating a new brand you can configure following settings:

• Name and URL
• Page title for manufacturers page
• Upload image
• Mark it featured
• Select the website view
• Add description and meta information
• Add contact details
• Attach products
• Export all brands to CSV file

How it Works

Magento Shop by brands extension by FME is very easy to setup and use, all the frontend elements are easily configurable from the backend. Lets start quickly with the configuration first.

Configurations of Shop by Manufacturer Magento Plugin:

General Settings:

This section allows you to configure following settings:

• Enable/disable this module
• Enter the manufacturers attribute code
• Enter frontend router information
• Limit brands per page

Optional Settings of Magento Shop by Manufacturer

In this section you can configure following settings:

• Enable featured brands slider on the landing page
• Enable brands logo
• Enable signup box on the brands view page
• Display search box on brands view page

Right Navigation Settings

Right navigation options appear only on individual brands page. Each brand has its own landing page, you can configure following options:

• Select the slider type for brands display on right navigation such as drop down or list view.
• Configure sort and order by options

SEO & Email Settings of Magento Shop by ManufacturerKey features:

• Configure URL suffix and email template in this section.
• Now let’s add brands and configure different properties.

Brands Manager Grid

You can view all the added brands in this grid as well as export them to a CSV file. In order to add a new brand and attach products to it, click on add brand button on the top right and configure following settings.

Configure General Information

You can add general information for a brand such as below:

• Add brand name, title of its page and URL parameter
• Upload brand logo
• Mark any brand as featured
• Select the website view
• Enter description and meta information for brands page.

Contact Details

You can also add contact details of a brand, which can be following:

• Website name
• Contact name
• Phone and address
• Select Product

In this tab, you can associate products with a brand. And that is all what you need to make this extension work.

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