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I’ve been trying to figure this out for weeks now and can’t seem to find a solution. I’m sure other people are trying to figure out how to accomplish this as well. If you know how to achieve this please reply to this post.

Hey,

Yep been in your position and it can be frustrating!

In Administration
1. Goto the CMS\Manage Pages
2. Open the Homepage
3. Select the Custom Design Option
4. Add the following

Between the section <reference name="content"> and </reference> add in the code for New Products as shown below

Now, Just make sure you have some products which have the date parameters set for the new products.

You should be good

cheers
Brendan

@ brendanb

Thank you for your reply. What i have showing in my CMS home page in Custom Design Tab is

Did brendanb’s solution work for anyone else?

You need to remove the “<!--” at the beginning and the “-->” and the end and it will work.

@ jeff.d Thanks for the advice.
Ok i was able to get to work, but the items are showing up Out Of Stock. Any one have a clue why they show up out of stock? I have the inventory set as Manage Stock - NO

I’ve seen this posted so many times today, I made a blog post about it

http://www.getfido.net/blog/magento/how-to-fix-the-magento-out-of-stock-bug-version-11x.php

Let me know if you have any issues following this! I’m setting it to notify me if you respond here.

@ nikefido
SOLVED! THANK YOU so much! i really appreciate everyone’s help. I’m sure you helped not only myself but many others with the same/similar problem. That’s what i love about the Magento Community they are a helpful group of people! By the way nikefido cool blog ill be sure to get your rss feed.

jvalen - 05 September 2008 12:15 PM

@ nikefido
SOLVED! THANK YOU so much! i really appreciate everyone’s help. I’m sure you helped not only myself but many others with the same/similar problem. That’s what i love about the Magento Community they are a helpful group of people! By the way nikefido cool blog ill be sure to get your rss feed.

Much appreciated :D The top Feed button (big one on the top) goes through addthis.com - the “real” feed is the link at the very bottom if you prefer to avoid it.

Ok one last thing. I remember seeing this in a post but cant seem to locate it. I know you can edit how many products you show up on the front page. Right now i have only 5 showing up. Does any one know where the file is i need to edit in order to change the amount of products i can view?

If you are referencing the “new” products still, you can edit this via the template file (phtml file).

app/design/frontend/*/*/template/catalog/product/new.phtml

You will fine (line 27 on my file):

This will control the looping code that shows each product. It keeps going until $i is greater than 5. (Which means it will show up to 6 products, because $i starts at zero).

You can change this number to any amount of products. (Just remember that any number n you choose, you need to change 5 to n - 1

@ nikefido
If i understand correctly if i put the code

hi,

good to see you got it sorted!.
Ok you might have to modfiy the new.php file

go to

/app/code/core/mage/catalog/product/block/product/new.php

look around line: 53

chenge to

This sets the size of the records to be returned

Another tip

You might want to randomize the results set. Do do this you add some new code . see below

put this code before the following

One final thing, the above example is done against the core files. This is not advisable if you plan on upgrading in the future. You can put this code into a custom local module class that is out of the upgrade path. Again, there is a wiki on creating your own modules/classes

enjoy!
Brendan

ah ha! enlightening. ty.

My front page is now showing new and recentrly viewed products.  How do I keep it from showing recently viewed?  And since you said this is core code, wont our work get erased at the next update?

Is there a way to make the new products wrap into another column with something like rows of 4