Integrating Product Questions in a Custom Theme

While our Product Questions extension support most Magento themes, some custom themes will need a small modification in order to display the Product Questions panel on the product page.

Below you'll find two methods to integrate Product Questions in a custom theme. Please check out this tutorial if you're a Ultimo theme user!

Adding Product Questions to a CMS Block#

If your custom theme supports CMS static blocks in a tab or any other location on the product page, you can integrate Product Questions by adding a new CMS block to the product page.

Copy-paste the following code snippet in the CMS block content:

{{block type="productquestions/frontend_questions" template="plugincompany/questions.phtml"}}

After saving the CMS block you might have to refresh the store cache to display the Product Questions block on your front-end product pages.

Adding Product Questions to the Product View Template#

You can also add the Product Questions block directly to the product view.phtml template, which can be found in the following directory of your Magento installation:

app/design/frontend/YOURPACKAGE/YOURTHEME/template/catalog/product/view.phtml

Copy-paste the following code snippet in the product view template and save the .phtml file to add the Product Questions block to your product page:

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock("productquestions/frontend_questions")->setTemplate("plugincompany/questions.phtml")->toHtml(); ?>