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I'm calling in a layout update from a module, from the module's config.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>

...

    <frontend>
        <layout>
            <updates>
                <cmsogdata>
                    <file>cjw/cmsogdata.xml</file>
                </cmsogdata>
            </updates>
        </layout>
    </frontend>

...

</config>

It pulls the file in fine - if I put a deliberate syntax error in cmsogdata.xml, everything breaks as you'd expect.

What I'm trying to do is add a custom block into the HTML <head> on every page via <default> and it's not working.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">

    <default>
        <reference name="head">
            <block type="core/template" name="og.general" template="page/html/og-general.phtml" />
        </reference>
    </default>

</layout>


However if I target a specific page, such as the homepage it does work, e.g.:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">

    <cms_index_index>
        <reference name="head">
            <block type="core/template" name="og.general" template="page/html/og-general.phtml" />
        </reference>
    </cms_index_index>

</layout>


What am I missing?

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  • Strange.It should work.
    – Kingshuk Deb
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 9:43
  • @KingshukDeb That's what I feared :\
    – CD001
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 11:10

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Found it; I'd forgotten that I was playing crazy with this development install so in local.xml I was stripping everything back and overwriting it - so:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">

    <default translate="label" module="page">
        <label>All Pages</label>
        <block type="page/html" name="root" output="toHtml">

            <!-- [begin] html head -->
            <block type="page/html_head" name="head" as="head">

            ...

Which meant that local.xml was overwriting the module as well as Magento's own settings. Reverting it to the proper, sane, override system sorted it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">

    <!-- default -->
    <default>

        <!-- [begin] html head -->
        <reference name="head">
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