New Products not showing on home page

I'm trying to get new products to show up on the home page. I can get the new products tab to display but not the products themselves. When I click on the tab the products appear but I'm trying to get it so that they appear automatically when a customer visits the site. How do I go about doing this? I've been changing the configuration for over two hours and I can't get it to work. Any help is appreciated.

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Specifically, Zen Cart version, what template's in use.

Sorry for not giving enough information. It's Zencart 1.5.1 and the template is Bentley Classic. I believe some plugins were installed but I'm not sure which ones. It's running on PHP 5.4.1
The link to the site is www.elvisgreetings.co.uk so you can see how the layout looks now.

I've sorted this problem now. I had to edit template file.

The solution is from another thread for a different template but goes like this:

To change which tab shows by default, modify line line 6 in the css file: /includes/templates/abbington_mega/css/stylesheet_module_tabs.css:

HTML Code:
#featuredProducts {display:block;}
Change featuredProducts to either whatsNew, or specialsDefault -- depending on which you want... or to open all three, you can make the line:

HTML Code:
#featuredProducts, #whatsNew, #specialsDefault {display:block;}