Magento – category sidebar navigation

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I understand that category sidebar navigation display the categories you have created in Magento Admin Panel.

In my current scenario, i am facing one issue with categories. I am using the traditional way of creating menus.

For e.g. Home, Link1, Link2, Men –> All this are categories

Link1 ==> Its just normal navigation link like for example a contact us page.
Link2 ==> same as above
Link3 ==> Watch

In the extension that i used, it simply loop through all the categories that i have in my category folder.

My point here is that i want to display Men category only –> Since its contain all sub categories and items inside.

For e.g.

Men
–> Shirts
–> Pants

Currently, my sidebar navigation shows:

Link1
Link2

Men
–> Shirts
–> Pants

Best Answer

One way can be Set all other categories apart from Men to

Include in Navigation menu = No

Or You can also do via code customization:

You will need to modify the code:

<?php

    $catId              = 'Your Men Category Id';
    $category           = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($catId);
    $childCategories    = $category->getChildrenCategories();
    foreach($childCategories as $_category){
        print_r($_category->getData());
    }

This will give you all sub-categories of Men category

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Parent Category Showing Products from Subcategories in Magento

This is actually a feature. If you want to avoid this you should set the flag 'Is anchor' to 'No' on the parent category. In your example 'Clothing'. This way, in the parent category you will see only products directly assigned to it.
After you do the changes you should re-index everything.

Magento – Show Parent Category in Sub-Category

Ok You shoud modify the function $this->getStoreCategories()

$_current_category = Mage::registry('current_category');
$path = $_current_category->getPath(); //get the path of where you are
$ids = explode('/', $path);
//now you have something like root category/base store category/first level 
if (isset($ids[2])) { //you should add some more complex lookout
    $topParent = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId())->load($ids[2]);
//topParent is the ralph loren category even if you are in one of its children cat
}

Of course this is only a start point for your coding but you should have alla elements in it.

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