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How to setup Contact Us form in your nopCommerce store

Written by Lavish Kumar

written by Lavish Kumar

We all know the importance of having a "Contact Us" form on your online store. It lets your customers to reach you, ask question, provide feedback and much more. Many store admins using nopCommerce do not know, how to setup the contact us form correctly on  their online store as the form does not come pre-configured.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to setup "Contact Us" form in your nopCommerce store.


All you need is:
- Mailbox credentials (email address that will be used for mailing purpose)
- Access to administration section of nopCommerce

Steps to add password strength meter in nopCommerce 3.30 register page

Written by Lavish Kumar

written by Lavish Kumar

I just finished implementing a password strength check meter for nopCommerce registration page as I feel in e-commerce business payment transactions are done, so security issue is very important. In the registration page, password strength checking meter should be there in order to notify user if his/her password is strong enough or not. Today most of the websites use this password strength meter to check the strength of the password.

Here are the steps to add a password strength meter to your nopCommerce register page.

Difference between No Source / Web OR Source Code of nopCommerce

Written by Lavish Kumar

written by Lavish Kumar

Many times, new users of nopCommerce get confused about whether to use No Source / web version OR Source code  for their website(s) and they do not know the difference between the two.

You can deploy your website by using either one but both serves a different purpose (depending on  your requirements).

Here is a complete explanation of when you need to know.

Are you interested in free nopCommerce themes?

Written by Lavish Kumar

written by Lavish Kumar

So, many nopCommerce users asks for more choices in regard to themes / layout. In past, Striving Programmers Community have provided many free nopCommerce themes to many users.

We are planning to provide more new nopCommerce themes to our users and all the themes will be FREE.

We would like to know your thoughts!
Steps to hide admin menu items in nopCommerce 3.2 based on roles

Written by Lavish Kumar

written by Lavish Kumar

Many times, I have seen users asking same question in regard to nopCommerce "How to hide menu item based on roles". Since nopCommerce offers a great feature called "Access control list", it does makes sense that an administrator of any website would like to show or hide some pages or menu item to give limit access to other users who are maintaining the site or have access to the admin section.

Today, I am going to show how to accomplish this and I hope it helps nopCommerce users who are looking for a solution to this problem / question.

How to search records in a gridview without using stored procedures or SQL scripts

Written by Lavish Kumar

written by Lavish Kumar

A great way to search records on client-side without getting using stored procedures or SQL script just by using  jQuery and css stylesheets.

Usually, many developers make use of stored procedures or SQL scripts to perform search which is kind of a common approach. It includes number of steps such as: writing a long stored procedure, placing a text box on your page that will enable a user to type a search term, execute the stored procedure on the search button click and passing the types parameter to the stored procedure and the results are displayed.

Striving Programmers Community site has been updated! More new articles and tutorials will be coming soon

Written by Lavish Kumar

written by Lavish Kumar

I know I have not been active on the site lately. I apologize to all the community users / members for not answering your questions or for not providing you the solution on time. I have been very busy with projects and updating this site to bring a lot of improvements and bug fixes.

Striving Programmers Community site has been updated with many design enhancements.

I will be active on the site, answering as many questions as I can, posting more new articles and tutorials.

A lot more interesting stuff will be coming on the site - Stay Tuned !!!
Steps to add a new custom page in nopCommerce 3.1 (MVC Version)

Written by Lavish Kumar

written by Lavish Kumar

Many times, I get a common question in regard to nopCommerce: "How to add a custom page in nopCommerce?". As nopCommerce switched from webforms to MVC, this question became more common on nopCommerce forums and I received a lot of requests from several nopCommerce users asking help.

Many ASP.NET developers are still new to MVC, as it can be a learning curve for any .NET developer, so I completely understand that it can be overwhelming to work with something that is totally different from webforms.

So, here I am writing an article on this topic to answer this common question and I hope it helps nopCommerce users who are looking for a solution to this problem / question.
How to highlight Today's Date in ASP.NET AJAX Calender Extender

Written by Lavish Kumar

written by Lavish Kumar

A simple way to highlight Today's Date in ASP.NET AJAX Calender Extender using JavaScript.
How to link ASP.NET AJAX Calender Extender with a Textbox

Written by Lavish Kumar

written by Lavish Kumar

An easy way to link ASP.NET AJAX calender with a textbox so that selecting date from calender is captured by the textbox.