Magento Front Page category display

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Solution

This can be easily done if you need to display products on home page or any CMS page then do the following:

a) Create a new category of the products which you want to display on the desired page and note down the category Id generated (suppose id = 4)

b) Go to Admin->CMS->Pages and select the page you want

For adding any image add an img tag with the below src

src="{{media url="image_path"}}"

{{block type="catalog/product_list" name="home.catalog.product.list" alias="products_homepage" category_id="4" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

that's it

Hope this helps!!

Problem

I am trying to customize a Blanco Magento Theme I bought in Themeforest, I want to display some categories (not all) in the front page with an static image, does anyone have an idea how to do it? Thanks a lot! PS: Magento is 1.7

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