How to add Products on Magento home page

How to add Products on Magento home page

How to add Products on Magento home page

Get category ID first

• Open Magento admin panel and go to Catalog > Manage Categories
• Select the necessary category and look for the category ID at the top

Create products block

• In the Magento admin panel go to CMS> Pages>Home page
• Switch to the Content tab and into the HTML code block paste the following code:

{{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”7″ template=”catalog/product/list.html”}}

• Make sure the category_id=”7″ value matches your category ID. When you are done click the Save button at the top
• In case you want to control the number of columns in product listing please use the following code:

{{block type=”catalog/product_list” column_count=”4″ category_id=”7″ template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}}

• Write where the column_count value is the number of columns