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Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By : Richard Carter
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Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By: Richard Carter

Overview of this book

<p>Get to grips with Drupal Commerce, the new ecommerce framework based on the Drupal CMS , one of the most popular and powerful open source content management systems available.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" takes you through the installation, configuration, and customisation of your Drupal Commerce store. With clear, practical recipes with plenty of screenshots and tips this book will help you build attractive and profitable eCommerce sites.<br /><br />This book starts by showing you how to install and configure your Drupal Commerce store. Once your shop is up and running, you’ll then learn how to customise and optimise it to make it stand out and display your products better.<br /><br />Going further into customisation, you will learn to add custom product types before creating a stylish new Drupal theme for your store. Packed with tips, this book will also help guide you through common problems, as well as optimising and managing your store on a day to day basis.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" will guide you through everything you need to know to get your online store up and running and selling your products, with easy step-by-step guides and screenshots to help walk you through everything.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding multiple images to a product


A feature of many e-commerce stores is to display more than one photograph of a product. For example, you may want to display your products from different angles, or display your product on an isolated background and in use. Drupal Commerce Kickstart 2 allows you to add multiple images to your product pages through Drupal's administration panel.

This recipe will guide you through the customization of Drupal Commerce product types so you can add more than one product image per product.

Getting started

Log in as an administrator to your Drupal Commerce store. Navigate to Products. This assumes that you have enabled the Commerce Kickstart Menu's module.

The Product tab displays the list of existing products within your Drupal Commerce store.

How to do it...

Drupal Commerce Kickstart 2 allows you to add multiple images to your product pages through Drupal's administration panel:

  1. Select the Edit option from the drop-down next to the product you wish to add multiple...