Magento. Display new products on the home page (block)

Open Magento admin panel
Go to CMS>Pages>Home page
Switch to the content tab
Insert the following code:

{{block  type="catalog/product_new" column_count="6"  products_count="12" name="home.catalog.product.new"  alias="product_homepage"  template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}


Where:

column_count="6" – number of the product columns
products_count="12" – number of the displayed products