Magento. Display new products on the home page (block)

This tutorial will show you how to display new products on the home page in Magento using the Magento block.

• Open Magento admin panel
• Go to CMS>Pages>Home page
• Switch to the content tab
• Insert the following code:

 

 {{block  type="catalog/product_new" column_count="6"  products_count="12" name="home.catalog.product.new"  alias="product_homepage"  template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}} 

 

Where:

• column_count="6" – number of the product columns
• products_count="12" – number of the displayed products