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I’ve been looking around for a few hours on this one, but all I found was one other thread about this. What I want to do is create a full width static block above a 2 column left layout. This static block only needs to be on the homepage. I followed the steps mentioned in the thread above but I can’t get it to show up.

Is there an easier way to do this? Thanks in advance…

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Assuming that your static block identifier is “callout”, this code is valid

Thanks for replying Magemods,

So is the tutorial I\’ve been looking at accurate? I just can\’t seem to get this to to work...I\’ve created a phtml file called slides within template/page/html/ and I\’ve added the following to page.xml:

<block type=\"core/text_list\" name=\"top\" as=\"top\" translate=\"label\">
<label>Top Row</label>
</block>

Added the following to the homepage CMS layout update XML:

<reference name=\"top\">
<block type=\"core/template\" name=\"top.callout\" template=\"page/html/slides.phtml\" />
</reference>

and I\’ve added this to 2columns-left.phtml:

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

If anyone has any suggestions that\’d be great!

I suggested you to create a new custom layout template for the home page.

sarathtomy,

Thank you! Got it to work by following this tutorial. Thanks for your suggestion!

thanks! it works.

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Michael
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