Question

I saw this answer Static block on home page in Magento but cant make it work.

Im just trying to add a custom block in my home page. These are the things I’ve done:

1- Add this to my layout file.

<cms_index_index>
    <reference name="content">
       <block type="aitshopassist/assistant" name="aitshopassist_assistant" template="aitshopassist/assistant.phtml">
           <action method="setBlockId"><block_id>shop_assistant_block</block_id>
           </action>
       </block>
     </reference>
</cms_index_index>

2- Added this to the 2columns-right.phtml file:

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('shop_assistant_block') ?>

Also, the block is shown correctly in catalog_category_view.

What am I missing?

<catalog_category_view>
    <reference name="content">
        <block type="aitshopassist/assistant" name="aitshopassist_assistant" template="aitshopassist/assistant.phtml" before="category.products" />
    </reference>
</catalog_category_view>

I tried this in the cms_index_index but didnt work..

Answer 1

 <block type="cms/block" name="aitshopassist_assistant" before="-">
        <action method="setBlockId"><block_id>shop_assistant_block</block_id></action>
  </block>

set it in xml file for calling block