Magento is ecommerce software and is available to download for free from their website. It is a robust software, which is one of the reasons that it has become very popular so fast. Many companies wishing to get their presence felt online opt for Magento. Magento has a great deal of plugins and modules available however it comes packed with a great number of useful modules thus reducing the need to do so. There are however, many extensions available for you to install into Magento to enhance the user experience. In fact if you wish to customize you website even more and have several unique features they you can take help of companies like Alakmalak who are into Magento Web Development.

It is possible to display the new products on the home page by simply following the steps mentioned here. To start with you will need to go to the admin panel of Magento installation. Once you login you need to go to the admin menu CMS  Pages  Home Page . Once there you need to switch to the design tab. Here you will find a Layout Update XML window. The code mentioned below should be pasted in this window.

<reference name=”content”><BR>
<block type=”catalog/product_new” name=”product_new” template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”><br>
<action method =”setColumnCount” ><count>0</count></action><BR>
<action method=”setProductCount”><count>0</count></action><BR>
</block><br>
</reference>
In addition to which if you need to display new products from a specific category you need to use the following action.
<action method=”setCategoryId”><category_id>10</category_id></action>

The desired category ID can be obtained from the admin panel —> Catalog —>Manage Categories.

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