Template ignoring "Featured" for front page.

[knlpres]

Hello, Thank you for reading.  Using:
Joomla 3.3.6
Virtuemart 3.0.18

I'm using a Shape5 theme (GCK Shop) and within VM there is the "Feature" selection. 
In the theme there is a slider and it is for "Featured Products". 
In the backend I'm supposed to be able to choose between being displayed in the feature or not.  But when I make changes, even when I empty the site cache folder and clear the browser cache, it ignores my changes.  Things like I have a main product with child products.  I want the main product to display but not the child.  So I select the main one and deselect the child products and they all appear.

I wrote shape5 and they said it is a known issue here is their response.

"Hello,

The template itself does not control any of these features, that's entirely handled by Virtuemart. I would suggest posting this question on virtuemart.net's forum board so they can assist you with their component. I've personally tried to setup a similar scenario in Virtuemart and was not able to get it to work either, I am not sure if it's a bug in their component, or if there's a known work around."

So does anyone have a work around or other suggestion for a plugin that would work?  I'm not married to anything.  I need it to work well.

Thank you.

[K&K media production]

Joomla 3.3.6

You need to update your Joomla!

http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=118683.msg402445#msg402445


Your child products should be uncategorised and this config option must be disabled: Show uncategorised child products in search results and modules?

[knlpres]

OK, updated Joomla.  No change.

Checked the "Show uncateg.." was disabled.  It was already.

Removed categories from products and now the main product does not have the additional counts.

DO I need to make a category called "uncategorized" and add them to  that?  Because as of now I just don't have them in a category.

[knlpres]

yep, in case anyone needs the answer.

[K&K media production]

DO I need to make a category called "uncategorized" and add them to  that?  Because as of now I just don't have them in a category.

no you can leave the category field empty

[knlpres]

If I left it empty then the parent product didn't have the child ones.  I had to make them "uncategorized" and then it worked.