[How to] Display new or category products on the Magento home page

01. Dec, 2009 1 Comment

I am new in using Magento, and since now i see this is the great system with some things that are for me as Joomla and WordPress user really strange.

I am still exploring but the main problem was adding and removing System blocks in side bars. To do this you need to change some code which is not ideal solution and I hope that this will be resolved in future realeses.

Next thing that was bothering me was my empty home page. I could add some text and pictures, but it still looked bad. So I started to look for a solution of putting the list of products on the home page.

I found out that it is possible to put

  1. Products from specific category and
  2. New products on the home page

To show products from specific category on your magento home page you would need to:

  1. Create a new product, with all required fields filled, and published in some category
  2. Product published on specific website (you will see what i mean in the video)
  3. Find out the category id
  4. magento, [How to] Display new or category products on the Magento home page, magento category 500x368 Paste the code in the content area of your home page by going to CMS>Manage Pages>Home page
    {{block type=“catalog/product_list” category_id=“4″ template=“catalog/product/list.phtml”}}

    5. Category ID will be the number of your category (check the picture above)

    That should be good!

To show new products on your magento home page:

  1. Create a new product, fill all the required fields
  2. Select the period to show your product as new
  3. Paste the code in the content area of your home page by going to CMS>Manage Pages>Home page
    {{block type="catalog/product_new" name="home.catalog.product.new" alias="product_homepage" template="catalog/product/new.phtml"}}
  4. Save it! That should be good.

For details check this great video
http://vimeo.com/1070986

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One Response to “[How to] Display new or category products on the Magento home page”

  1. Sandeep 22. Apr, 2010 at 14:10

    In the magneto admin area cms->pages->select page( Like:home page ) ->select content tab->hide editor by clicking on the button just below the editor->and add the widget for the catalog new product.
    after this if product not displayed then please check the following thing realated to product
    General Information :: Status >> Enable
    Design :: Active From && Active To
    Inventory :: In Stock
    Qty :: Greater then 0