Magento How to link to category by id from static block/page

magento categories static-block
Alex Hadley picture Alex Hadley · Apr 25, 2012 · Viewed 19.5k times · Source

I'm looking to link to a category from a static block using the category id. Any thoughts?

I've done the usual searches, but to no avail.

At the moment I can do something like <a href="{{store url="category-i-want.html"}}">, but this is hardly robust.

Answer

benmarks picture benmarks · Apr 25, 2012

Use the category link widget inline link code:

{{widget type="catalog/category_widget_link" anchor_text="Displayed Text" title="Title attribute text" template="catalog/category/widget/link/link_block.phtml" id_path="category/22"}}

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