Show Specific Categories On Magento Home Page

Hi

Hope someone can help me with this. I need to show 3 specific categories on my Magento home page. I have created a "list-homepage.phtml" file and have the following code in this file.

Code:

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<div class="row">
<?php foreach ($this->getStoreCategories() as $_category): ?>
<?php $open = $this->isCategoryActive($_category); ?>
<?php
$cur_category=Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($_category->getId());
$layer = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer');
$layer->setCurrentCategory($cur_category);
if ($immagine = $this->getCurrentCategory()->getImageUrl()):
?>
<div class="catalog-image">
        <div class="col-sm-4">
                <a href="<?php echo $this->getCategoryUrl($_category)?>">
                <img src="<?php echo $immagine ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($this->getCurrentCategory()->getName()) ?>" class="img-responsive" />
                </a>
        </div>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</div>

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And I have added this block to my home page in the back-end.

Code:

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{{block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.category" template="catalog/category/list-homepage.phtml"}}

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The problem with this is that it displays all the categories I have, I just want to display 3, what do I have to do in order to achieve this?

Many Thanks for your help

Hi Mumford,

Check this out on how to display only 3 specific categories on the home page,

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/groups/248/display_products_on_home_page

If this fails, drop me a mail to [email protected] , I'll get one of our certified devs to help you out!

Cheers