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David Chan
David Chan

Reputation: 1

Magento - Banners, Widgets and Static Blocks

I'm new to Magento and I'd like to ask how can I display a banner in CMS pages? I tried to create a new banner with some simple characters as the content and linked it to a new widget. However, the banner was not displayed on the specified page I selected. Besides, when I pressed the "Insert Widget..." button for a static block and selected "Banner Rotator", it is strange that the options displayed below the screen were banners, instead of widgets. Anyway I selected the banner I just created, but it could not be shown as well.

Please help, thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7651

Answers (2)

Sunil Verma
Sunil Verma

Reputation: 2500

In order to show a banner on a cms page, you can create a static block with required HTML.

add it to the layout page for ex in : app\design\frontend\default\newcode\layout\local.xml

add following code in the above created file :

<layout version="0.1.0">
<cms_index_index>
    <reference name="content">
        <block type="cms/block" name="custom.blockid">
            <action method="setBlockId">
                <block_id>custom_blockid</block_id>
            </action>
        </block>
    </reference>
</cms_index_index>
</layout>

Assuming that id of your static block is custom_blockid

Read more at http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/introducing-magento-widgets/

Upvotes: 2

Luke Rixson
Luke Rixson

Reputation: 647

  1. Go to “CMS > Pages > Manage Content”
  2. Select the new page
  3. Go to Content
  4. Press Insert Widget
  5. Select Banner Rotator
  6. Select the banner I just created

Hope that this helps you as I guide to achieving what you want.

Upvotes: 0

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