Magento – Default Facebook sharer URL in Magento 1.9 (RWD)

So firstly I am making a few assumptions.

1. That you want to remove the normal navigation from the top and move it completely to the left hand-side,
2. That you are going to style it yourself :)

Firstly want you want to do is create a local.xml in your theme so you can change the xml of pages easily.

Then you want to unset the current main navigation.

<reference name="top.menu">
    <action method="unsetChild">
        <name>catalog.topnav</name>
    </action>
</reference>

Now what you want to do is move this into the left column.

<reference name="left">
    <action method="insert">
        <block>catalog.topnav</block>
    </action>
</reference>

Now in the end your complete local.xml file will look as follows.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <default>
        <reference name="top.menu">
            <action method="unsetChild">
                <name>catalog.topnav</name>
            </action>
        </reference>
        <reference name="left">
            <action method="insert">
                <block>catalog.topnav</block>
            </action>
        </reference>
    </default>
</layout>

Now one very important thing to think about here is that not all pages have a left column. For instance in a default set-up the homepage and other cms pages do not have this as well as all product pages.

These are the three default packages Magento comes with. Each package can have multiple themes installed inside. If no theme is explicitly set it will use the default theme inside whichever package you are using. I'll do a brief rundown of each package below.

• Base - This folder has all the template and layout files Magento needs to run. Think of it like the core codepool. You generally don't want to touch the base folder outside of adding in folders from extensions.
• Default - This is the default theme for Magento. Any files here override the base folder and Magento will use template files from here (if you are using the default theme) where they are available.
• RWD - This is the alternate default theme which works much the same way Default does but has the feature of being responsive. You'll use one or the other.