Magento: Display New Products On The Home Page

Posted by Mike on January 5, 2010 |

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Many don’t know that displaying new products on any page of your Magento store is actually a built-in feature! All you have to do is paste the following code in your CMS page:

{{block type="catalog/product_new" name="home.catalog.product.new" alias="product_homepage" template="catalog/product/new.phtml"}}

Products marked as “new” in your catalog will show up wherever you put the code above. By the way this is NOT related to the date when your products were added to your store – only the products that you set as “new” in the catalog will show up. To mark a product as new, simply use Magento’s built in function under “Catalog” -> “Manage Products” -> “Your Product” -> “General” -> “Set Product as New from Date” and “Set Product as New to Date”.

I’ve seen countless “modules” and “extensions” that do just that, or a little more. But really it’s better to use Magento’s native function.

Tags: magento

Michael - January 6th, 2010

Thanks!! Any idea how I can display new products on the home page, but only from a specific category?

Joanna - January 8th, 2010

Thanks for this!! Works perfectly.

Rob - January 10th, 2010

I have the same question – how can I display new products but have them appear by category? For example one row for category 1 and another row for category 2.

Sean - January 14th, 2010

Awesome! Nice and simple. I agree with the other comments – being able to easily display new products by categories would be great. Your help is really appreciated. Thanks!

Mike - January 14th, 2010

Hi guys! Here is how to display new products – by category!
http://www.noamdesign.com/Web-Design-Blog/magento-add-new-products-on-home-page-by-category/

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