Magento: Get Category description from block

I was facing issue for getting category description from cms block. After researching on google I found the solution for it. You just need to add this in the home page content:

{{block type="core/template" template="catalog/category/description.phtml" category_id="213"}}

Now create the file app/design/frontend/{interface}/{theme}/template/catalog/category/description.phtml with the following content:
 

<?php $categoryId = $this->getCategoryId();?>
<?php $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId())->load($categoryId);?>
<?php if ($category->getId() && $category->getIsActive() && $_description = $category->getDescription()) : ?>
    <?php echo $this->helper('catalog/output')->categoryAttribute($category, $_description, 'description')?>
<?php endif;?>

Note: This code will work only on product page because we are getting the category id from the current page which is done by writing the following code:

$categoryId = $this->getCategoryId();

First get the category id of the current product page and load category model. Now you can get the category description.

All done!

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