Magento: How To Add Static Blocks

November 12th, 2011 | Posted by hhanifl in Magento | SEO & Internet Marketing

Add a Static Block from a CMS Page :

First create the the static block. Lets say, the identifier you used is “my_block” Now goto your CMS page and paste this in the content box,

{{block type="cms/block" block_id="my_block"}}

Then click on Design > Page Layout on the same CMS page edit screen. And paste this,

<reference name="content"> <block type="cms/block" name="my_block"> <action method="setBlockId"><block_id>my_block</block_id></action> </block> </reference>

Thats all. Clear cache and you should be able to see your static block on frontend.

Add a Static Block from the PHTML file :

If you want to call a static block from a magento template file, the .phtml files, then here is how to do that. Just edit the .phtml file and place this code with your static block identifier,

<?php echo$this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('my_block')->toHtml() ?>

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