This works great for the standard Magento templates, but if you have a template that has room for more than 5 products in your New Products feed, you'll notice that it stops at 5 and leaves the rest of the block empty.
You may have seen a fix for this that requires you to locate Magento core files, copy them to a local folder, and edit the default New Products count, but there's a much simpler, and much faster way to accomplish this.
Say, for instance, there were room for a grid of 9 products on a New Products block. Just add
_productsCount="9" to the block code so that it looks something like this:
Voilà! No need to edit backend files, no risk of ruining your Magento installation; just quick, simple, and easily editable. Enjoy!
