Magento 2 – How to Add a Static Block on All Pages

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I want to add a static block on the left side of all pages.

Can anyone tell me how to do that?

Best Answer

First of all, override the 2columns-left.xml in your theme module and define every page's column layout as 2column-left from XML and cms pages. Than put following code in your 2columns-left.xml file

<referenceContainer name="columns">
    <container name="div.sidebar.main" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="sidebar sidebar-main" after="main">
    <container name="sidebar.main" as="sidebar_main" label="Sidebar Main"/>
       <block class="Magento\Cms\Block\Block" name="blockname">
         <arguments>
            <argument name="block_id" xsi:type="string">cmsblock-identifier</argument>
         </arguments>
       </block>
    </container>
    <container name="div.sidebar.additional" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="sidebar sidebar-additional" after="div.sidebar.main">
        <container name="sidebar.additional" as="sidebar_additional" label="Sidebar Additional"/>
    </container>
</referenceContainer>

Above code will display your static block in the left side of your every 2columns-left style page.

The code to add cms block is:

       <block class="Magento\Cms\Block\Block" name="blockname">
            <arguments>
                <argument name="block_id" xsi:type="string">cmsblock-identifier</argument>
            </arguments>
       </block>

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<remove name="left.permanent.callout"/>

Try changing the name from left.permanent.callout to something else and it should work.

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Try to put this in a new file say footer_categories.phtml:

<div class="footer_categories">
          <ul>
               <?php $helper = $this->helper('catalog/category') ?>
             <?php foreach ($helper->getStoreCategories() as $_category): ?>
             <li>
                 <a href="<?php echo Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->setData($_category->getData())->getUrl(); ?>" title="<?php echo $_category->getName() ?>"><?php echo $_category->getName() ?></a>
             </li>
             <?php endforeach ?>
          </ul>

    </div>
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Now open your static block and call in this way

{{block type="core/template" template="catalog/footer_categories.phtml"}}

you can get the required output.

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