Richard Castera

i have tried what is given above but it does not work. please help.

but how to control the number of products display in row and column? Say I want to have 8 new products to display at the main page, with 4 products in a row in 2 columns, is that possible?

hi

I placed this above code to CMS->Manage page->Home page

bit it does not working

new.phtml also here catalog/product/

Thanks for the tip re: setting 'New From Date'.

Eddie

Hi Richard,

I've tried the above and it works although, in my template when i set more then 3 products it goes off the table, instead of adding a second row.

Any idea how to fix it? I've tried to set a limit on css, though it doesn't seem to work...

Thanks for this great tip. Works but I am getting the block duplicated. Any ideas why this is happening?
Philip

That's a great tip, thank you.

Would there be a way to get it to show new products from a certain category?

Thank you.

Simon

i set the Set Product as New from Date to yesterday and Set Product as New to Date to tomorrow
but nothing happens

ok i found the error
if copying the displayed test its no good. u have to select the icons that pops up by hovering the text with the mousepointer and select the icon "copy to clipboard" then the code is right,

Tx for the code just what i needed.

This worked great for me. Nice and easy. Thanks!

Thanks Richard.

As I am a magento developer, I am glad to read your post.

Hello,

great write up! It works for me, but I get duplicated blocks, and I don't know why... Any ideas? It doesn't matter what product I set up as NEW, still I get duplicated New Product blocks.

Hey Richard, this is great. However, when I put the code in my page, it overlaps my other design, is there a quick way to resize the block? I went into the new.phtml file and I can't find what I'm looking for.

Scratching my head for a good while trying to get more than 5 latest products to show up, your instructions worked perfectly - THANKS!

Thanks for this code. I have it working but with problems. The main problem is that all products are being displayed, even simple products with a "nowhere" display setting. Any suggestions as to how to display only products I've chosen to display in my "catalog,search"?

I found the solution. Ok, what should we do to make visible the new products in your website(homepage or else where) :
Firstly, don't forget to sign out the product attributes "Set Product as new from date"-"Set Product as new to date"in general information. Try to edit "from date" before today.

Then if you want to see more than 5 product in your homepage :
don't forget about the core:
app\code\core\Mage\Catalog\Block\Product\New.php and edit the constant:

const DEFAULT_PRODUCTS_COUNT = 8;

This constant respond to how many products will be visible in your page.

Nice post and thread! I seems a lot of people are having problems with the homepage in Magento, which is quite a crucial part of the site! Thanks Richard for all your info on this.

Hi Richard,

Now its working fine in my site. Thanks for your help.

The new products title showing as "New Products", I would like to show as "New Products for October 2009"

can you please help me out.

With Regards
Venkat

Hi Richards,

It seems you have deleted my comment. I sincerely posted my comment.

Anyhow i used the code you have mentioned above.

I have updated the code with 8 products. It is coming in single row and overlapping the right sidebar.

Help me to show 4 products a row and up to 5 rows please

site www.theplrmart.com

Regards
venkat

Hi!
I have a problem with new products, i search in all answers but is a different problem. I add my products but it doesn't appear in new products, i update the date "Set Product as New from Date " and " Set Product as New to Date" and put the date of yesterday i both of them.
but today when i open the site the products doesn't appear. I don't know why sometimes the products appear and another one disappear. Thxs for all!

Hey Richard,

Was wondering if there's a way to edit the coding, so that it shows the 10 most recently added products to the store without using the new from and to date flag. This will be very useful to me (and many others i would believe) because i don't update my site with new products very often, and lets say i normally flag a products as new for a max period of 7 days, after 8 days this coding wont show any products and my homepage will be lacking content.

I want it to always show the last 10 products regardless of whether its still flag as new. Hope you can help, thanks in advanced!

Hi there, I got the new products on home page. But I have problem related to product url. Product url for new products is like http://sitename/catalog/product/view/id/priductID/s/productname and everywhere else it is like “http://sitename/productname.html”.

Can you please help me on this?

What's up Richard,

Wow, I'm really impressed with this, man? I can't believe you actually take the time to respond to every reply personally. I hope karma is good to you - you deserve it

Just wanted to say thanks for this small but helpful explanation. It has proven essential in a website I was making for someone and you saved me a whole bunch of time trying to reinvent the wheel. Not just your own post, but your replies to further inquiries as well! Thanks so much!

Keep up the good work man,
~Adrian

Richard, you are a hero! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I really am so happy to having found a solution to this issue )

Big smile from DK

Hey! A little note: I just noticed this little line in the "new.phtml" (/app/design/frontend/default/YOUR_TEMPLATE/template/catalog/product/new.phtml) of my theme:

5): continue; endif; ?>

This would make the loop stop after 5 fragments, even when DEFAULT_PRODUCTS_COUNT is set to any higher variable. I think I saw some people here having problem with this? This might solve their problem Hope it helps!

Sorry, apparently that PHP line somehow didn't make it through your system. Could you fix it in the other comment for me, Richard? You can remove this one afterwards. Thanks!

The line I was talking about was:

<?php if ($i>5): continue; endif; ?>

thank you. it works like a charm. you've saved me.