Display/ Lists all magento products on Home Page

In Magento, almost all are facing an issue that products are not displaying in home page. This may be due to many reasons. Here i am explaining based on latest Magento 1.8. Mainly this occurs due to three reasons.

1. Home page Layout configuration.
2. Zero quantity product.
3. Out of stock product.

Please ensure the following that you are correctly configured.
Home page Layout configuration

1. Login into your Magento Admin Panel.
2. Go to CMS -> Pages. In the 'Manage Pages' list, choose 'Home page'.
3. Left side you can see 'Page Information'. In this choose 'Design'.
4. On right you can see 'Page Layout'. And also can see 'Layout Update XML'.
5. In this change the following

<block type="catalog/product_new" name="home.catalog.product.new" alias="product_new" template="catalog/product/new.phtml" after="cms_page">

to

<block type="catalog/product_list" name="home.catalog.product.list" alias="products_homepage" template="catalog/product/list.phtml">

Zero quantity product

1.  Login into your Magento Admin Panel.
2. Go to Catalog -> Manage Products. Select a product and ensure that the quantity of product is not zero.
3. If it is zero, then open the product, On left side you can see 'Product Information'.
4. Choose 'Inventory'. Then update the Qty to a number > zero.

Out of stock product

1.  Login into your Magento Admin Panel.
2.  Go to Catalog -> Manage Products. Select a product.
3.  Open the product, On left side you can see 'Product Information'.
4.  Choose 'Inventory'. Then change 'Stock Availability' to 'In Stock'.

Labels: cart, ecommerce, free, magento, opensource

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