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.