Display new products on the home page Magento

This tutorial will show you how to display new products on the home page in Magento using the Magento block.

• Open Magento admin panel
• Go to CMS>Pages>Home page
• Switch to the content tab
• Insert the following code:

{{block  type="catalog/product_new" column_count="4"  products_count="12" name="home.catalog.product.new"  alias="product_homepage"  template="catalog/product/new.phtml"}}

 

 

You may clone the new.phtml from
 \app\design\frontend\base\default\template\catalog\product


Thank you.