magento products been shuffling on homepage?

Question

i am in the process of implementing the product list , but the thing is , do not know why its been shuffling . if somebody have experience on how to get rid of this.

{{block type="catalog/product_list" name="home.catalog.product.list" category_id="2" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

the above code is in my homepage .

Answer 1

In case you want to control the number of columns in product listing, please use the following code:

{{block type="catalog/product_list" column_count="4" category_id="2" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

Refresh cache and check it.

Thanks.

Answer 2

to stop shuffling go to admin panel. click on catalog> manage categories > select your category > display settings > Available Product Listing Sort By > select your desired seting either price , name or valuee , now your products would not be sorted.

Answer 3

check the product block,for ->order('rand()')

        $collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection');
        Mage::getModel('catalog/layer')->prepareProductCollection($collection);
        $collection->getSelect()->order('rand()');
        $collection->addStoreFilter();
        $this->setProductCollection($collection);
        return parent::_beforeToHtml();