Magento – How to show the categories filters on the left sidebar in magento

magento-1.9

Ho to show the categories filter in the left sidebar in the categories pages similar to search results page?
I have enabled the left sidebar template for categories apges but it only shows the price filters.

Best Answer

There are a few things that must be configured in order to activate an attribute in the category layered navigation (left side category filter).

First, the Is Anchor setting on the Display Settings tab must be set to Yes for each category that you would like to show within the layered navigation. Is Active must also be set to Yes as well to ensure the category is active.

Second, the Use in Layered Navigation setting must be set to one of the filterable options (either Filterable (with results) or Filterable (no results)) for any product attribute you would like to use as a filter on the category pages.

Once you have saved your category and attribute settings, you need to Update Magento Indexes (including attributes) and Clear Magento Cache.

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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

Magento 1.9 Local.xml – Remove ‘Shop by Price’ in Left Sidebar

Go to Catalog > Manage Attributes

Search for price

Then edit the attribute, and change the following

Use In Layered Navigation : No

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