I am new to Magento and would appreciate some help.
I struggled to add the newsletter widget to my left column.
I was able to do so by : 1) Going to CMS-->Widget and creating a new Widget, with the type as CMS Static Block, my title i set as Newsletter. I set to display on all pages, and the block reference i set to Left Column. 2) I then went to CMS-->Static Blocks, created a new block called newsletter and updated the content with:
{{block type="newsletter/subscribe" name="left.newsletter" template="newsletter/subscribe.phtml"}}
However if I do this, then the block does not show up, if I change it to
{{block type="core/template" template="newsletter/subscribe.phtml"}}
the widget show, but does not update update subscription, I understand from other posts that this will not work.
What do I need to do tho get the newsletter/subscribe working?
It would help to enable the module under System--->Advanced--->Advanced.