We have a layered navigation in magento. I've styled it and everything is ok.
We just want another layered navigation below the toolbar and above the products but just for single filters like Price, Manufacturer and Color as Dropdowns.
I tried very hard to find a solution but the solutions are just for changing the position of the layered navigation.
I hope one of you can help me.
You cant able to figure Layered Navigation in both the side.
If you configure both the sides its showing index(you can use only one index) error
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I am using Manadev SEO Layered Navigation Plus (http://www.manadev.com/seo-layered-navigation-plus) as my layered navigation, but it's acting strange with configurable products.
My configurable products use only one attribute to create configurables (Size). However I have a Color attribute, also used in the layered navigation (dropdown not used to create configuragles, because every product comes in one color and many sizes).
The problem is that Size attribute shows all the simples of the configurable product, even if they are disabled in the admin. When you see the product page, the disabled simples are not showing up, but they do in the layered navigation. What do you think may be the problem?
Btw I may have imported values for Color in the configurable product as well as in it's simples. And Re-Indexing doesn't work.
SEO Layered Navigation Plus extension relies on standard Magento functionality which prepares special index tables for use in layered navigation (and decides which products should be shown when an option is selected). Unfortunately, this functionality does not consider quantity of simple products when preparing index tables for configurable products.
Standard Magento layered navigation has the same issue because it relies on the same indexes.
There is no quick fix. We consider altering Magento indexing functionality to address this issue.
To keep you posted on this issue please contact us through www.manadev.com website.
Somehow the color attribute BLACK is showing up in my layered navigation options even though the category does not feature any items with the mentioned color. I've noticed this happens in all of my store (Magento 1.5.10) categories and ONLY with configurable products.
Someone got an idea how I can prevent this from happening?
Try to reindex indexes if you didn't yet. Start with Product Attributes
I have products that has custom options like size, color etc. All are unique to the products and not shared by attributes. How can i add these filters on the product listing pages. I hope i write my question clearly. Please let me know if you want more information. Thanks for your help.
In Magento, two properties will appear as layered navigation filters without you having to do anything: Price and Categories
Its better to store them as attributes and make them filterable , then it will be displayed in the layered navigation.
You can see here how layered navigation works.
And if you want to know how to include this layered navigation widget in any of the page, read this tutorial
I'm creating a video game ecommerce store and I need to have the navigation structured so that the navigation bar contains all the major consoles. When someone hovers over one of the console navigation links, a drop down menu appears with each genre option. For example, once you hover over Xbox 360, a drop down menu with Action, Adventure, etc. will show up.
My first thought is to create sub-categories in each major category that represent each genre. There would also be a custom attribute field for genre. I would then have to manually export the product database and fill it in for each product.
Is there an easier way to do this that I don't know about? Is it possible to have attributes as the drop-down menu links in the navigation bar?
One thing I've noticed in the Manage Attributes section is the option to Use in Layered Navigation. As far as I can tell, this links the attribute in the sidebar and not the main navigation bar.
For reference, my website is at http://allyourga.me
There is no default functionality to do what you are describing. The default Magento way to accomplish this is via subcategories. You are correct about Layered Navigation, that is a sidebar feature inside the catalog.
You could do some custom coding around showing the attributes in the dropdown menu, but the dropdown links lead to categories anyway, so you'd need to create those regardless. Another approach would be a cronjob that created the necessary categories for the products and placed them into those categories on command. You'll need to add a "console" attribute to make this work as well.
Hope that helps!
Thanks,
Joe
Basically, what I would like to do is have some attributes in the layered nav block show up only if a particular filter was set before. Here’s an example:
Customer goes into ‘rings’ category. There would be many different attributes displayed in the ‘shop by’ block, however I only want a few to be shown at this stage including: Material (white gold, yellow gold, silver etc.). If, and only if, the customer selected a material (specifically yellow or white gold), on the next page i would like there to be the ‘gold carat’ attribute available in this block. As it is at the moment ‘material’ and ‘gold carat’ are both shown in the layered nav which isn’t ideal.
Ive had a look at the code in app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/layer but I can’t seem to get any inspiration.
Thanks for any help
Jamie
Jamie - Unfortunately, as I'm sure you have discovered, Magento doesn't do this out-of-the-box. The layered navigation is built based upon the available attributes (that have been set as filterable nav) for the category listing you are viewing.
You would have to write a custom module to override the layered nav output. A place to start could be /app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Layer/Navigation.php. Good luck!