Magento limit the number of products shown with in the new products block

Question

How to limit the number of products shown with in the new products block? via cms/pages/design/Layout update XML

Answer 1

Don't try it randomly. You're trying to call an action on a block/product_new. So go into the class Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_Abstract and see what function could do the job (double Ctrl+O in eclipse)

Here i see a Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_Abstract::addColumnCountLayoutDepend($pageLayout, $columnCount) function.

Maybe it can help you. Example:

$this->addColumnCountLayoutDepend('one_column', 5)