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Finally, exact steps for getting products to show up on your home page.

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  • steve warshaw 1 year ago
    Glad I could help. I'll be working on more new tutorials soon
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  • Mike Elkoussy 1 year ago
    It would appear that current versions of Magento do not display the category on hover. Any other suggestions on how to get the category number?

    Great work!
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  • a_name 11 months ago
    It's not pretty but it works:

    Catalog > Manage Categories

    Then view the source (Firefox Ctrl+U). Search for "tree.loadTree". Now you will see a JSON object of all of the categories. Look for the title of your category after {"text": The category id follows it after "id":

    Yeah, not fun.
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  • Ron 11 months ago
    You just saved me thousands of hours.
    Thank you so much Steve!!!
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  • Jeremy Osborn 10 months ago
    Great post many thanks! One more questions:

    Any ideas on how to include a left hand category bar on the front page, for use as the home page navigation bar?

    Thanks in advance
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  • denis elder 10 months ago
    nice tutorial. finding answers to simple things like this can be a challenge. thanks for the insightful video
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  • Rhonda Fairman 10 months ago
    Thank you so much for this Steve - I would never have figured this on my own - glad to see that the Category ID is now available on the Category General Info page.
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  • niunia 10 months ago
    Hello, This is really great, but I have one question if you could please answer it will be great.
    On my page there is a sentence "There are no products matching the selection." insted of new product, I thing that the product is not add to WEB site, but I don't know why. Maybe someone have/had the same situation?
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  • steve warshaw 8 months ago
    I'm glad this helped everyone. I will continue tinkering with Magento this month. I got called off to work on X-Cart for a while, and am looking forward to getting back to work on magento
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  • caz 8 months ago
    thanks Steve. I'm finding magento really confusing and not really that intuitive. I can't even get categories to show up on the home page at the moment (There are no products matching the selection error)

    Any tips to troubleshoot?
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  • adam naranjo 7 months ago
    Magento, confusing? Magento is practically retarded. I've tried this, and still I get nothing on my front page. You would think that a team who could develop something like Magento would also be capable of making it more intuitive.
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  • Gil Hamer 7 months ago
    Finally a very good and simple tutorial
    thanks a lot!!
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  • HOLLER! 7 months ago
    Wow, thank you for the video. I was going in circles trying to figure out how to get this to display products on the store front. Awesome!
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  • Mr. Cool 6 months ago
    Excelletai!!!!! Where are you man, you have been out of action for a while.

    MORE TUTORIALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Great JOB
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  • davidinottawa 6 months ago
    Steve - thanks for laying this out.
    I was shocked to see that you have to add the smarty and template code to have the prodcut show up.
    Is it just me, or shouldn't there be a checkbox group where I can say :
    Display this product on these pages"
    during the Add or Edit product stage.
    What's the point of a CMS if I have to teach my client how to dump in code every time he adds or wants to change a new product ? Craziness.
    I had VERY high expectations for Magento replacing the very outdated OSCommerce site he has been running - now I'm not so sure.
    Any comment ?
    Thanks again for the tutorial.
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  • Dipesh 5 months ago
    hi,

    when i do the same steps it says
    "There are no products matching the selection."
    actually i have put in the product in a sub catagory.....
    can u please tell me what is the problem

    Thanks,
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  • orta 5 months ago
    The latest version of Megento tells you the category id next to the title of the category in the Manage Categories section of the dashboard btw.
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  • Ivan Rojas 4 months ago
    Thanks, excellent video
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  • xpedrosa 24 days ago
    Thanks Steve for a great tutorial.

    I am new to Magento, but this tutorial helped me on the first try! I wanted to display the best selling items on the homepage, so what I did is open a new category called best sellers. In it I added a few items. I copied the ID for that new category and it worked! Now is going to be easy to change them every now and then.
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  • jerry schrader 3 days ago
    Brother, you have found a calling, thank you, and do more please!
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