How do I display new products on the home page?
Marking products as "new" in the admin
To display new products on your Ultimento home page, all you have to do is mark them as “new” in your Magento admin and they will automatically show up on the front page. That’s it!
Ultimento is best viewed with at least 8 new products in the catalog (to fill up the 2 rows on the home page like the demo) but that can be easily changed with a minor change.
If you have more than 8 new products set in your Magento catalog, only the 8 newest products will show up (from newer to older).
How to set products as “new” in Magento:
- Log in to your administrator interface and click on Catalog > Manage Products
- Click on the products you’d like to set as new and scroll down
- Under “Set Product as New from Date” put today’s date or a past date (or a future date if you don’t want your product to show up on the home page right now)
- For “Set Product as New to Date” you can leave that field empty (that product will always remain “new”) or put an end date.
If you have any questions regarding displaying new products on the home page, feel free to post it in the comments below!
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Hi Noam,
A small bug,
Having between 1 and 4 new products,
the background between the text and the footer gets messy.
Regards,
Carles
Hi Carles – that’s not really a bug
. The home page is designed to have 2 rows of featured products (which after many many tests proved to be the optimum layout for user retention and store conversions) the gray background gradient in the home page footer does get shifted if you only have 1 row of products.
All you have to do if you intend to only display one row of products on the home page is a small CSS adjustment:
1. Open the CSS file located here: skin/frontend/default/ultimento/css/styles.css
2. Do a “search and replace” and replace “1622px” (without the quotes) with “1292px” (without the quotes).
That’s all
. I hope this helps! What I’ll do is add a request on our road map for a future release to setup some automatic way to handle this case. Make sure to stay tuned!
Thanks,
Noam.
Thanks Noam!
Hi Noam I have set some products to new status and the dates are correct yet nothing shows up on my home page.
Can you help?
I have 3 stores configured. 1) Main Store. 2) petite store 3) plus size store. I have a separate ROOT CATEGORY for each store with the categories replicated under each root category. I have products configured in the categories for both MAIN and EITHER petite or PLUS. The idea is all products show up in MAIN, only petite in PETITE and only plus size in PLUS SIZE. When I browse the products on main i see all of them. When i go to each store, I see the appropriate products. HOWEVER, the NEW PRODUCT panel on all three stores shows all of the new products from ALL STORES. It does not filter them by STORE. See “http://steelmagicstudios.com”.
Hi Robert – the proper way to do this with Magento is to make sure your products are set as “disabled” (or “not visible individually”) on the store configs where you don’t want them to show up.
Alternatively you can follow these instructions to display new products by category. With this method you’ll be able to select which category you want to use for each of your Magento stores
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I hope this helps!
Great, but if you read that thread everyone in it says that the instructions don’t work. I tried them and they didn’t work right either. I copied new.phtml to featured.phtml and put the block code in using the right category. Instead, I get a duplicate of the new products list, but with 6 instead of 8 products. It shows the same products, which is all products flagged as new.
Then use the “proper way” as I explained in my reply! For more info on this and on how to setup your Magento catalog in general please review the Magento User Guide. I help everyone as much as I can but these questions are not related to Ultimento but rather to how to how to use the Magento platform.
FYI I also just tried the method outlined at the link I sent you to display new products by category and that’s working fine for me. Of course make sure to clear your Magento cache properly and to re-index all data.
Still though the correct way is as I explained above to set your products as disabled (or as “not visible individually”) under the configuration scope where you don’t want them to show up.
I hope this helps!
Well, I think this is a Magento issue, not an Ultimento issue. So, I’ll drop the discussion. But, just so you know, I disabled products under the stores where they should not be visible and now all 3 stores still show the same products, but only the 3 products that I did not disable at all.
Hello,
I got the problem that the stars on top of the products are not showing.
http://www.laserselex.nl/
please tell me how to fix this
Hi Sam,
Do your products have ratings? And are they approved? Try going to
Catalog > Reviews & Ratings > Manage Ratingsin the Magento admin panel and make sure to select the “Rating Visibility.” Magento’s default behavior is not to display product reviews and ratings until they have been monitored and approved by the store administrator.I hope this helps! Let me know if this solves your problem
unfortunately It does not do the trick.
Hope Noam has a solution for this problem?
Hi Sam – looking at your website I see that this is happening only on the new products on the home page – that’s a known issue that’s fixed in the upcoming version of Ultimento which will be released very soon
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Hi Noam,
I am setting up a new Ultimento magento store and have recently added some products to the home page (as new products). After a couple more modifications I have now noticed that icons are now appearing for “add to compare” and “add to wishlist”, etc rather than the original text links. I have gone round in circles trying to resolve this and just can’t find a way to put it back. Please help!
Thanks in advance,
Simon
Hey Simon – your store looks great! Beautiful customization of Ultimento
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The new products feed on your home page looked great to me so I’m assuming you figured it out but feel free to reach out again if you have any other questions.
Hi Noam,
Thanks for the compliment! yes, just after I posted my comment, I gave it one last crack and solved it. Thanks for getting back to me.
Hi Noam,
When I select products in the backend, I do not get the set product as new fields.
So I cannot set my products as new.
How should I enable this?
Greetings, Arno
Hi Arno
It should the on the page that opens when you click on a product in the Manage Products. It’s under General settings. Same place where you put the product name, SKU, status, …
The following code displays everything on the home page except for the new arrival
{{block type=”core/template” template=”page/cms/home-top3.3.html”}}
{{block type=”catalog/product_new” name=”home.catalog.product.new” alias=”product_homepage” template=”catalog/product/new.phtml” _productsCount=”8″}}
BROWSE ALL PRODUCTS >
{{block type=”core/template” template=”page/cms/home-bottom1.html”}}
If I replace all the ” with “, then all I get on the home page are the new arrival.
This is driving me nuts, what am I doing wrong?
Hi David,
What are you trying to achieve? If you installed Ultimento properly as instructed, you do not have to change anything to make it look like the demo site.
Please open a ticket from your Ultimento account if the issue persist.
Where can I change the label “New Arrivals” shown to something like “Featured Products” instead?
Thanks,
Drew
Hey Drew,
There are two ways you can change the text of “New Arrivals” on the homepage. The first option is the easiest, you’d simply use the language translation functionality of Magento to change the English translation of the phrase to whatever you wanted in the language csv file. If you don’t know how to do this Magento has a guide on using the translation feature.
The other option is to change the language in the code itself. It may be a bit quicker to implement, but it’s not going to be nearly as upgrade friendly. If you want to take this approach just look at the new.phtml file under your catalog/product directory.
Thanks,
Support
Thanks for the info. Got it changed.
Drew
Hi
Is there any way to adapt this to also show categories on the home page ? In the place of new products?
Hey Paul,
Yes, you can customize anything in Magento which is what is so great about it.
That said, you’ll need to be comfortable going in to some files to pull out the product related code and inject some static category links.
Thanks,
Support