Problems with Product Visibility in Magento

When first setting up a Magento-eCommerce-site, almost everyone wonders why products are not being shown on the actual site, even though everything seems to be filled out correctly. In this little article, I’d like to explain how to make sure a product is shown on the site after it has been created via the Magento-backend.

Here goes a little checklist of what to do in order to have your products being shown in your Magento-eCommerce-Shop..

Checklist

• in Catalog/Manage Products : fil out all required fields in each tab and click “save and continue edit” when finished
• in Catalog/Manage Products/General : make sure “Status” is set to “Enabled”
• in Catalog/Manage Products/General : set “Visibility” to “Catalog”, “Search” or “Catalog, Search”
• in Catalog/Manage Products/Inventory : set “Qty” to a value greater than 0
• in Catalog/Manage Products/Inventory : set “Stock Availability” to “In Stock”
• in Catalog/Catgories : assign your product to at least one category (you might have to create one first)
• in CMS/Pages : select “Home Page”, then switch to the “Content”-tab and enter {{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”21″ template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}} into the large content-textarea (you might have to adjust the category_id if your newly created category_id differs from the one in this example.

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