Comments on: Magento CMS : 2 methods for static blocks

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:56:55 +0000

Anyone who’s thinking about using magento should have their head examined; magento is bloated, confusing and bullocks. I’d only suggest using it if you’ve got a penchant for punishment, or 6 months to learn all their “simple” coding conventions … But don’t expect to do this by reading their documentation, or searching for help on their forums; the information you’ll find that way is lacking to say the least. You’ll only learn it by wading through the 5,000 files it installs on your server; you read that write, the standard install contains nearly 5,000 files. I stamp magento with an AVOID AT ALL COSTS label. Future users beware!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:04:35 +0000

Hi,
…not sure if this is in the right area or you can help but I am having trouble adding a static block in a newsletter template. I have tried adding {{block type=”cms/block” block_id=”block-id”}} in the template but on preview it interprets this as a string and the static block does not appear. No response from the Forum. Any ideas? Thanks.
Tim.
(www.mytex.co.uk – mobile computing office bundles)

By: x4hai

x4hai — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:09:03 +0000

I use Free CMS module, it’s very useful. You can see the demo here: http://demo.hello-magento.com/freecms/furniture.html

By: justin

justin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:41:22 +0000

thank you,it’s very helpful.