Add Featured Products on Homepage in Magento

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="36" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

• This line will create a Magento Block on home page with featured products list
• Change th category_id=”36″  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.

Note: If you are not able to view your featured products then go to System > Index Management >Reindex all of your data.