In the preceding example, we added products to a simple landing page. To do this, we:
1. Created a product category just for that landing page.
2. Added the three products that you see to that category.
3. Added a block to the page that displays all of the products in that category.
Each of these is covered in a subsection below. You can add other blocks to a Magento CMS page. For example, the Search and Related Products blocks. We will use the Category Product block as our example.
Creating a product category for the landing page:
1. Log in to your site's administrative interface.
2. Select Catalog | Manage Categories.
3. Under the Default category, add a new subcategory.
4. For the category Name, you might want to include the words "Landing Page" or something similar. When you are assigning products to this category, you will see this name.
5. For Is Active, select No. This will prevent the category from being displayed in the navigation...