Magento – Assign a separate theme to product pages and categories

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I have magento 2 and a requirement to show a certain category, subcategories and product pages in those categories using a different layout then other product pages on my store.

So just to be clear:

I have a category page which shows a list of subcategories
I have a sub category page which shows a list of products
and a product page

each one of the above has a different functionality then other categories/products of my site.

So, I have a theme that I created that I assigned to the category and the subcategories that I need. It works great. But, I did not find a way to assign a theme to a product page. I had to assign the theme to the entire site for the theme to be applied to product pages. This defeats what I need to do

Am I missing something? What is the right approach?

Best Answer

So here the general idea I would follow:

create a global theme for all your pages EXCEPT the product page
create a specific theme ONLY for your product page
assign your global theme to your entire site
in your product configuration, enable your product specific theme (under Schedule Design Update)

Related Solutions

How to Get Categories and Subcategories in Magento

<?php 
$_helper = Mage::helper('catalog/category');
$_categories = $_helper->getStoreCategories();
if (count($_categories) > 0){
    foreach($_categories as $_category){
        $_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($_category->getId());
        $_subcategories = $_category->getChildrenCategories();
        if (count($_subcategories) > 0){
            echo $_category->getName();
            echo $_category->getId();      
            foreach($_subcategories as $_subcategory){
                 echo $_subcategory->getName();
                 echo $_subcategory->getId();
            }
        }
    }
}
?>

To only one category

<?php 
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(4);
$subcategories = $category->getChildrenCategories();
if (count($subcategories) > 0){
    echo $category->getName();
    foreach($subcategories as $subcategory){
         echo $subcategory->getName();
    }
}
?>

Magento – Show only parent categories and sub-categories in left nav

if you are extend this class class Mage_Catalog_Block_Navigation

then you can check with the function like below

if ($this->isCategoryActive($category)) {
            $classes[] = 'active';
            $activeClass = ' class="cur-act-cat"';
        }

or if not you can add below two function to your block to check if category is active or not

     /**
     * Check whether specified category is active
     *
     * @param Varien_Object $category
     * @return bool
     */
    public function isCategoryActive($category)
    {
        return $this->getCurrentCategory()
            ? in_array($category->getId(), $this->getCurrentCategory()->getPathIds()) : false;
    }

     /**
     * Check whether specified category is active
     *
     * @param Varien_Object $category
     * @return bool
     */
    public function isCategoryActive($category)
    {
        return $this->getCurrentCategory()
            ? in_array($category->getId(), $this->getCurrentCategory()->getPathIds()) : false;
    }

hope this will sure help you

Best Answer

Related Solutions

How to Get Categories and Subcategories in Magento

Magento – Show only parent categories and sub-categories in left nav

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