Simple homepage featured products listing in Magento 1.9

Question

Im trying to implement a simple products list to show at the homepage and every single solution i've found on the web fails in my setup (Magento 1.9.0.1). It seems that most articles are only relevant to previous versions.

Anyone found a solution for this?

Answer 1

 {{block type="catalog/product_list" name="home.catalog.product.list" alias="products_homepage" category_id="4" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

See also https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/20984/show-products-on-homepage-magento-1-9 - good idea to create a custom template file to call.