Display NEW Badge For Number of Days

Is it possible to add badges to each individual product instead of adding the product to a category with the assigned badge?

For example, the client wants the badge "NEW" to be displayed for 7 days when a new product is added. The issue is the "End Date" is ONLY available for categories but not for individual products. This doesn't really work because products are added at different times so the we don't want them all ending the same time...

So basically, how can I have the "NEW" badge display for 7 days for a product.

Thank you!!

It is a good idea but I will see it differently.
If you will have to create a new badge each time you have a new product, it will be very difficult to manage.

I think that the "new" badge should be attached to a category without any date limitation.
But using a mass action, you can put products into a category (and remove them from a category).

So you can have a mass action which will put your new products to the special (hidden / unpublished) category if their create date is less than 7 days.
And you can have a mass action which will remove your "old" products from this special (hidden / unpublished) category if their create date is more than 7 days.

The mass action can be processed automatically every day using a cron task. So you won't have to do anything in your store except creating products.

Hi there,

I'm trying to display items that are "NEW" for say 7 days but I'm not sure what options to select.

I'm not sure if it's category or product that I should choose as the "Data" to start. I am playing with both but none seem like its the correct one.

Can I get some direction please and thank you. Please see attached pic.

Hi,

It's actually not possible to set a filter based on the current date.
Thanks to add this additional code:

if(in_array($filter['type'],array('product_published','product_created','product_sale_start','product_sale_end','product_modified','product_last_seen_date')) && preg_match('/time-/',$filter['value'])){
					$filter['value'] = time()-(int)str_replace('time-','',$filter['value']);
				}

$query->where[] = $this->massaction->getRequest($filter,'hk_product');