title: Display custom block at Magento Home page
body: <p>I saw this answer <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4366177/static-block-on-home-page-in-magento">Static block on home page in Magento</a> but cant make it work.</p>
  
  <p>Im just trying to add a custom block in my home page. These are the things I've done:</p>
  
  <p>1- Add this to my layout file.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;cms_index_index&gt;
      &lt;reference name="content"&gt;
         &lt;block type="aitshopassist/assistant" name="aitshopassist_assistant" template="aitshopassist/assistant.phtml"&gt;
             &lt;action method="setBlockId"&gt;&lt;block_id&gt;shop_assistant_block&lt;/block_id&gt;
             &lt;/action&gt;
         &lt;/block&gt;
       &lt;/reference&gt;
  &lt;/cms_index_index&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>2- Added this to the 2columns-right.phtml file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getChildHtml('shop_assistant_block') ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also, the block is shown correctly in catalog_category_view.</p>
  
  <p>What am I missing?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;catalog_category_view&gt;
      &lt;reference name="content"&gt;
          &lt;block type="aitshopassist/assistant" name="aitshopassist_assistant" template="aitshopassist/assistant.phtml" before="category.products" /&gt;
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  &lt;/catalog_category_view&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried this in the cms_index_index but didnt work..</p>