Magento Widget on CMS Block/Page?

Question

I'm using an older version of Magento CE (1.5.0.1) and I'm trying to add a category URL to a CMS static block. I found numerous posts stating that the way to do this is to use the {{widget ...}} directive, as so:

{{widget type="catalog/category_widget_link" anchor_text="Foo" title="My Category" template="catalog/category/widget/link/link_inline.phtml" id_path="category/33"}}

When I put this on a CMS block that is added to my header, what I get is the above, output as text. It's not translating it. I dug in further, and from what I can tell, it isn't designed to work. A CMS Block creates an instance of the block template processor by calling getBlockTemplateProcessor in the CMS helper. This is hard coded in the CMS modules config.xml to return an instance of Mage_Cms_Model_Template_Filter, which extends Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template_Filter. If you dig into that, there's no widgetDirective method, which would be required for it to properly translate widget directives. Unless I'm mistaken, CMS pages aren't designed to support widgets.

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

In CMS block, type as follows.

{{store direct_url='category1.html'}}

Where category1.html is URL of particular category