How to display featured product in home page using magento?

Question

I want to add 'featured' attribute set while adding product (dropdown (yes/no)).
On selecting 'yes' the respective products should be shown in home page.
Is it possible ?

Solution 1

Please go through the below link to show the featured products in Magento Home page.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/84852/

How Display Featured Products - Magentocommerce

It would be helpful to you.

Solution 2

Adding featured products in Magento is very easy. Just follow the steps mentioned below.

->. Log in to your Magento Admin end.

->. Go to Catalog > Manage Categories.

->. Select Root Category of your choice. By default only one Root category is available
named “Root Catalog”.

->. Now click on Add Subcategory button on left and name new subcategory “Featured” (this name can be anything of your choice).

->. If you do not want to load category on store front-end then Is Active to No.

->If you do not want your category to be appeared in navigation set Include in Navigation Menu to No.

-> After creating the category you will see the category name and ID on the page title. Note down the ID of your category which is mentioned after ID: label in Category title on page. See the image below for reference.

-> Add few Products in newly created Featured category.

-> Now go to CMS > Pages > Edit Home page > Content.

-> Add following line in the content

{{block type="catalog/product_list" column_count="4" category_id="5" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

-> This line will create a Magento Block on home page with featured products list

-> Change th category_id="5" in the block to your own category’s ID

-> Save the page by clicking on Save Page button and go to your home page to see your featured products listing.

Comments

[Nikhil_K_R]

Thanks Prakash.The 2nd link is easier and much more accurate.

[Jscti]

Just to mention another solution: If it were for me, i would have created a custom widget (based on existing ones and very simple to adapt).

[Kamal Joshi]

What do you say about this extension? magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/featured-products-4605.h‌​tml Its compatible upto 1.5 but can be used in latest version.

[Nikhil_K_R]

It was just a try towards doing it programmatically .And got success.However in future will surely use your solutions . Thanks

[Erdal G.]

Thanks, it works like a charm! :) It's less cleaner than the attribute way as you have to hardcode the category id (especially if you are using this method on your own bloc) but it's much simpler for the product managers to simply put products on a category.

[DWils]

Please use more details in your answer. Links are not reliable, and the 2nd link is to a parked domain.

[user1702965]

Do you know how I can get that block in a phtml file?