Magento category static block not getting displayed

Question

I am unable to make magento display static CMS block under category > display settings.

Contents of app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/category/view.phtml seem to be correct as per similar question on SE. Here you go:

<?php if($this->isContentMode()): ?>
    <?php echo $this->getCmsBlockHtml() ?>

<?php elseif($this->isMixedMode()): ?>
    <?php echo $this->getCmsBlockHtml() ?>
    <?php echo $this->getProductListHtml() ?>

<?php else: ?>
    <?php echo $this->getProductListHtml() ?>
<?php endif; ?>

I have configured 3 categories, lets say

category_a (only products)
category_b (both products and cms)
category_c (only cms block).

Things I tried which don't work:

Disabled custom theme and used default theme of magento.
Replaced view.phtml from another magento installation (where its working fine).

Replace the if-else block with

<?php if($this->isContentMode()): ?>
MODE: CMS
    <?php echo $this->getCmsBlockHtml() ?>

<?php elseif($this->isMixedMode()): ?>
MODE: MIXED
    <?php echo $this->getCmsBlockHtml() ?>
    <?php echo $this->getProductListHtml() ?>

<?php else: ?>
MODE: PRODUCTS
    <?php echo $this->getProductListHtml() ?>
<?php endif; ?>

This displayed MODE: PRODUCTS for all 3 cases (product / cms / mixed)

Removing the if-else block and using only lines to force magento to display both cms and product blocks. Assuming the control was not flowing to correct block.
```
<?php echo $this->getCmsBlockHtml() ?>  
<?php echo $this->getProductListHtml() ?> 
```
Only product block got displayed for all 3 categories mentioned above (product / cms / mixed)
I can see that there are 2 problems here, or atleast I think so.
1. category display mode is always coming as "products only"
2. getCmsBlockHtml() does not return anything

so I tried following code snippet based on Mage_Catalog_Block_Category_View

Product: 
<?php echo $this->getCurrentCategory()->getDisplayMode()==Mage_Catalog_Model_Category::DM_PRODUCT; ?>
MIXED: 
<?php echo $this->getCurrentCategory()->getDisplayMode()==Mage_Catalog_Model_Category::DM_MIXED; ?>
CMS: 
<?php echo $this->getCurrentCategory()->getDisplayMode()==Mage_Catalog_Model_Category::DM_PAGE; ?>

and got response as >>Product: MIXED:1 CMS: for all three category display modes (product / cms / mixed).

Can someone help me out please. I have disabled caches and have tried reindexing also.

user3263857 user3263857 · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-17T08:54:43

I found a fix for my issue here Magento 1.9.2.0

App/Code/Core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Category/View.php inside function getCmsBlockHtml

On Line 109 it read return

but should read return $this->getData('cms_block_html');

Regards paul

Magento category static block not getting displayed

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