Add static block to home page

Question

I have looked and tried methods in other topics but I cannot find anything that will work.

I want to keep my homepage organized and I would like to add "sections" like about us and contact section to the home page.

I tried adding the the code like

<div class="row">
 <div class="col-sm-7">
   {{block type="cms/block" block_id="about_us"}}
 </div>
</div>

But isnt showing the content fromt he block. I tried doing it with a widget and it did show but it was stuck in the container and the bg image was not going full width.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Just need to add below code in CMS Page with you block id

{{widget type="cms/widget_block" template="cms/widget/static_block/default.phtml" block_id="18"}}

Answer 2

Use

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('about_us'); ?>

For getting static Block from a .phtml file {{block type="cms/block" block_id="about_us"}} is used to get static block in magento ver 1.9.2.4 or before.