I am trying to display a product with its description on the home page
It only allows to display price and name?
How to display some description with it?
I use {{block type="catalog/product_list" name="home.catalog.product.list" alias="products_homepage" category_id="5" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}} in cms-> homepage. Which display only product name and price.
I need to display description of product with it.
From the RWD file in app/design/frontend/rwd/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml line 105:
<div class="desc std">
<?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product,$_product->getShortDescription(), 'short_description') ?>
<a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $_productNameStripped ?>" class="link-learn"><?php echo $this->__('Learn More') ?></a>
</div>
Try changing to echo $_product->getDescription() or edit other parts in catalog/product/list.phtml
The general issue is, that collection used from product listing does not load the same amount of attributes as Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($id); normally would.
To add additional attribute to product list collection, go to administration:
Catalog -> Attributes -> Manage Attributes
Find attribute you are interested in and set it to 'Used in Product Listing' = Yes.
With this change you can get the attribute value as you would expect in your list.phtml template:
<?php echo $product->getDescription() ?>
However this will add the attribute to all product list collections, if you are interested in a single product on homepage, custom block solution would be definitely better.
