We need to write code for home cms like:
{{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”50″ template=”catalog/product/list_home.phtml”}}

Code:

<?php
$_productCollection=$this->getLoadedProductCollection();
$categoryID = $this->category_id;
//$categoryID = $this->getCategoryId();
if($categoryID){
  $category = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Category();
  $category->load($categoryID); // this is category id
  $collection = $category->getProductCollection();
} else{
  $collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection');
}
Mage::getModel('catalog/layer')->prepareProductCollection($collection);
$collection->getSelect()->order('rand()');
$collection->addStoreFilter();
$numProducts = $this->getNumProducts() ? $this->getNumProducts() : 1;
$collection->setPage(1, $numProducts)->load();
$_productCollection = $this->_productCollection = $collection;
?>
<?php if(!$_productCollection->count()): ?>
<div class="note-msg">
    <?php echo $this->__('There are no products matching the selection. Please provide a category ID.') ?>
</div>
<?php else: ?>
  <ul>
	<?php $_collectionSize = $_productCollection->count() ?>
    <?php foreach ($_productCollection as $_product): ?>
		<li>
        <a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>">
            <img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(105, 105); ?>" width="105" height="105" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>" />
        </a>
		</li>
    <?php endforeach ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

This code displays a single product.

u can create a new list.phtml and make it show only 10 products

as for the category use “category_id=”"

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in Design / XML Layout

If you are looking for the correct way to change how many columns your products are displayed in “grid view” in Magento, the solution is actually quite simple. Navigate down to your catalog.xml file in your theme under the “app” side of Magento and open that file.

Then, what I did to make it simple is did a text search for the number of columns displayed, in this particular case, the column count is 4. The actual line of code looks like this:

4

Change that line to read:

2

Save the file. Then go into your Magento Admin section under “System>Cache Management”, select “Refresh”, then click “Save Cache Settings”.

Now refresh your Magento catalog page in your browser and you should now see your products in “Grid View” appearing in 2 columns instead of 4, or whatever number you changed the catalog.xml file to.

September 16th, 2009 | Category: Magento E-Commerce Help
Source: http://www.imagedia.com/2009/09/how-do-you-change-number-of-product-columns-in-magento/

To display products in grid mode on cms homepage. Getting 3 products per line, want 4. Anyone know?

so, I’ll post it without the brackets

block type=”catalog/product_new” template=”catalog/product/new.phtml”
action method=”setProductsCount” 5 /action

here it is unformatted:

5

Maybe anyone can help me:
I’m trying to set a product limit for a modified list.phtml in combination with the promotion.php

I need to call it via xml-layout in the backend. For the new.php I can easily set it via

5...

But this is not working for the list.phtml

Or do you have another hint for me? I need to show max 6 products from a larger list of promoted products, best randomized on my homepage. and the template forces me to call it via XML, so I can not use the CMS variable line {{…}}.

thanks in advance!

i got a shop in setup now and already used this “promotion-hack” worked fine! and after that i installed a slider module and the promotionsstuff stopped working. After some tries to fix it, i decided to uninstall the slider (before just tried to dactivate) but nothing still happens with that “promotion” thingy

Has anyone a guess on what to do or try ? it’s always saing that there are no items to show for this …

and sorry again for the language mistake xD