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How to make a category show up on your magento home page




From the magento admin:

  1. Select CMS->Manage Pages
  2. Click the ‘Add New Page’ button
  3. Set your Page Title, SEF URL Identifer to whatever you want. Typically “home page” or whatever.
  4. Set the proper Store View from the pull-down.
  5. Set the status to ‘Enabled’
  6. Copy the following line into the content section:

{{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”xxx” template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}

Note - that you must replace xxx with the category id of the category you want to show up on the homepage. You can easily find the category by going to Catalog -> Manage Categories then select the category you want - notice you can see the category id in parentheses at the top of the page now.

The final step is to select ‘System -> Configuration’ then select your store from the upper left pulldown and select ‘Web -> Default Pages’ and set CMS Home Page to the homepage you created above.



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