Magento. How to disable “New products” block on home page

Magento. How to disable “New products” block on home page

This tutorial will show you on how to disable New products block on home page of your Magento store:

1. The first method is to comment out the New products section.

   1. Log into your Magento admin panel.

   2. Navigate to CMS -> Pages > Home page > Design tab:

      

   3. Layout Update XML window includes coding for New products section to be displayed.

      	
      	<block type="catalog/product_new" name="home.catalog.product.new" alias="product_new" template="catalog/product/new.phtml" before="cms_page">
      	<action method="setColumnCount"><columns>4</columns></action>
      	<action method="setProductsCount"><count>4</count></action> 
      	<action method="addPriceBlockType"><type>bundle</type><block>bundle/catalog_product_price</block><template>bundle/catalog/product/price.phtml</template></action>
      	<action method="unsetData"><key>cache_lifetime</key></action>
      	<action method="unsetData"><key>cache_tags</key></action>
      	</block>
      	

   4. You need to comment it out:

      

   5. Click the Save page button on top right:

      

2. The second method is to remove the New products widget:

   1. Navigate to CMS -> Widgets:

      

   2. Select New products widget:

      

   3. Open it and click Delete button on top right:

      

3. Clear Magento cache and check home page, to check the changes made:

   

Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:

Magento. How to disable “New products” block on home page