Want to know how to add “Featured” products on your home page of your Magento Ecommerce website, here’s what to do:
First, in the admin section of Magento add a category called “featured” or something that sets it apart. Mark it as “inactive” and select the products you want included in that section. Save the category and note the category number.
Next, go to your CMS section of admin and edit the “home” page for your website. Add in this bit of code wherever you want the “Featured” items to appear on the page:
{{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”20″ template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}}
The “20″ in the above example is your category ID number from the steps above. If you want it to display 4 columns of product instead of 3, use this code instead:
{{block type=”catalog/product_list” column_count=”4″ category_id=”20″ template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}}
Pretty simple, but there are not a lot of directions around on this subject for help with Magento