A pinch of this, a sprinkle of that, and presto! Your administration area behaves just as you need it to. For the recipes in this chapter, you have used your sharpest knives in the drawer to chop up the default code and achieve outstanding results.

You are no longer tied to the natural sorting of New Products for your catalog display; instead you reset specific products with a simple click of a button to show the focal points of your site at will. Products expire automatically if you decide to set an expiry date, making promotional offers much less of a hassle to schedule and control. The selection for the Also Purchased Products box now only includes purchases from the last "x" days set by you in your Maximum Values area.

Your Orders screen not only allows you to view all customer, delivery, and billing addresses data at a glance, but also features colored status cells for quick and easy referencing of orders based on processing status.

The Configuration box, originally a more or less...