How to show recently viewed products on

specified pages in Magento

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This is one of the most common features in Magento asked by the clients from a Magento developer.

It must have some customizations in terms of number products to be displayed and location of it.

I use to teach to my Magento training students in some easy to follow steps.

There is an option under CMS->Widgets that does magic actually. Widgets option in Magento is a feature that collects a number of useful information blocks from database automatically to show in a store. You can create recently viewed products from Widgets option too but how would you show in a particular region on a website of a particular page is little complex. You can display a widget directly on a particular page or you can insert a widget in a Block and then can insert that block in a page or you can insert a widget directly into a CMS Page too.

Let me explain the best and most suitable option from all. I would refer to use Widgets directly to show recently viewed products on specific pages in Magento.

Follow the following given steps please:

1. Click on CMS->Widgets

2. Click on the Add new widget instance

3. Select Type->Recently Viewed Products

4. Select Design Package Theme->Your Theme

5. Click on Continue Button

6. In Frontend Properties

a. Give the Widget Instance Title

b. Assign to store views->All Store Views

c. Scroll a little down and you will notice a Layout updates section

i. Click on Add Layout Updates ii. Display On -> Specified Page (you can select any other option too)

1. Page->(Select your desired page) 2. Block Reference->(Select your reference to show it)

7. In Widget Options

a. Set Number of Products to display

8. Click on Save button and check your specified page.

Note: Dont forget to clear the cache if you dont see anything.

Let me know if you have any doubt in comment please.

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