Inserting a block in a CMS page between content heading and content

Question

I am trying to add a custom block on all CMS pages after the page's Content Heading but before the page's Content.

For reference, this is what is in my theme's layout/cms.xml, I haven't touched it:

<cms_page translate="label">
    <label>CMS Pages (All)</label>
    <reference name="content">
        <block type="core/template" name="page_content_heading" template="cms/content_heading.phtml"/>
        <block type="page/html_wrapper" name="cms.wrapper" translate="label">
            <label>CMS Content Wrapper</label>
            <action method="setElementClass"><value>std</value></action>
            <block type="cms/page" name="cms_page"/>
        </block>
    </reference>
</cms_page>

The content of cms/content_heading.phtml is just this (the heading, as expected), again, haven't touched it:

<?php if($_heading = $this->getContentHeading()): ?>
    <div class="page-title">
        <h1><?php echo $_heading; ?></h1>
    </div>
<?php endif; ?>

In my local.xml file, I am adding this:

<default>
    <reference name="content">
        <block type="core/template" name="my.new.block" after="page_content_heading" template="callouts/my_new_block.phtml" />
    </reference>
</default>

This is putting the block below the Content Heading AND the Content of the page.

I have also tried this (adding "before" tag):

<default>
    <reference name="content">
        <block type="core/template" name="my.new.block" before="cms_wrapper" after="page_content_heading" template="callouts/my_new_block.phtml" />
    </reference>
</default>

This is the same as above.

What am I missing? Thanks very much for any help.

(FYI, I am flushing my cache regularly. I'm using Magento 1.8.1)

Answer 1

Have you tried adding a root block between label and content? As follows:

<reference name="root">
    <block type="core/template" name="my_header" as="my_header" template="cms/default/my_header.phtml" />
</reference>

So, for clarity:

<cms_page translate="label">
    <label>CMS Pages (All)</label>
    <!-- ROOT BLOCK HERE -->
    <reference name="content">
        ....
    </reference>
</cms_page>

This block can be called in the view using getChildHtml('my_header').

Answer 2

You're probably past this issue by now or at least, I'd hope so, but for anyone else who happens upon this post when looking for an answer to the same question, here is one option.

Instead of referencing content, reference cms.wrapper instead. Then use the before attribute with cms_page as the value. Your block will be inside of the div tag with the std class, but will be above all the other content within that tag.

<default>
    <reference name="cms.wrapper">
        <block type="core/template" name="my.new.block" before="cms_page" template="callouts/my_new_block.phtml" />
    </reference>
</default>