title: Magento: How can I show the category description in the left sidebar?
body: <p>I want to display the category description in my left sidebar instead of the main column. </p>
  
  <p>I added this to my catalog.xml: </p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;reference name="left"&gt;
          &lt;block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.leftnav" after="currency" template="catalog/navigation/left.phtml"/&gt;
      &lt;/reference&gt;
              &lt;reference name="left"&gt;
          &lt;block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.catdes" after="catalog.leftnav" template="catalog/navigation/description.phtml"/&gt;
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I created this file: catalog/navigation/description.phtml </p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;?php
  $_helper = $this-&gt;helper('catalog/output');
  $_category = $this-&gt;getCurrentCategory();
     ?&gt;
          &lt;?php if($_description=$this-&gt;getCurrentCategory()-&gt;getDescription()): ?&gt;
  &lt;div class="category-description"&gt;
      &lt;?php echo $_helper-&gt;categoryAttribute($_category, $_description, 'description') ?&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  
  
  <p>There is no result at all. What could I be doing wrong?</p>