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This must be the most asked question in the forum, and since I had to figure out how to do this for myself, it was a logical choice for a tutorial.

This method allows you to show the products from any category, or several categories on your home page.
Tutorial - How To Get Products To Display On The Home Page

Finally I have something on home page, Steve you are the best, God bless you

Thank you so much.

I was interested in displaying all the products from a category.  I added
{{block type="catalog/product_list" category_id="22"}} to the Home Page based on http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/3111/

But that did not do anything. 

After watching your video, I realized the complete solution is {{block type="catalog/product_list" category_id="22" template=catalog/product/list.phtml}}

In the video you talk about this at around 6:00 mins into the video.

Thanks again.

Thanks Steve,

This did the trick!
BTW, I love your HD video tutorials.

Z-

Hi,

I’ve follow step by step video’s instructions to show products in the HomePage. The products are displayed it’s ok, but whatever the product’s link I click on, the page can’t be accessed, the browsed url seems to be invalid:
http://localhost/\/report/?id=1534233894&s;=default

Is there a solution ?

Regards,
Cleoo

I spent soo much time trying to figure out how to get the products to show on the front page. I was really getting frustrated with things. i’m glad i found this post. Things are FINALLY showing up on my front page! thank you!

stevewar - 26 May 2008 06:52 PM

This must be the most asked question in the forum, and since I had to figure out how to do this for myself, it was a logical choice for a tutorial.

This method allows you to show the products from any category, or several categories on your home page.
Tutorial - How To Get Products To Display On The Home Page

Many thanks for showing the way!

Hi,

The guideline is excellent but still i am getting this following line -

{{blocktype="catalog/product_list" category_id="3" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

in homepage .

I am new to programming , please help me

Thank you in Advance ,

Yash

Thank you for the video!!! I am new to magento, as well. One thing that wasnt covered in the video or maybe i missed it was the issue of setting up your categories correctly. Initially I just created a category then followed your tutorial not realizing i need to create sub-categories and then point the home page block to them. I was receiving and error about my product list. After setting up a sub-category under the default one, then putting the products on that newly created sub-category, did my products finally show up on my home page.

/cheers

Hi,

I check the tutorial…
now problam here is it does not show up the category id when i click their to the sub category....
i think the problem is there is no root category....
please check the screen shot

Thank You

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Hi,

Using the following method here http://www.vimeo.com/1070986 it limits the home page products to show only 1 category, is there any way of showing products from all categories?

sretep - 26 July 2009 11:45 AM

Hi,

Using the following method here http://www.vimeo.com/1070986 it limits the home page products to show only 1 category, is there any way of showing products from all categories?

There is a way to show random products on the homepage with one line of code added to the homepage cms but I cannot find it.
I originally had it working on my site before I moved server.