Magento 2.1 – How to Disable Category Filters

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I am working on a Magento 2.1.7 shop.

The products are organized into categories and subcategories.

Whenever a customer visits a category, filters (links to its subcategories) are displayed. I want to disable the filters.

The path to the file responsible with the filters is

vendor/magento/module-catalog/view/frontend/templates/navigation/left.phtml

I want to overwrite it from app/design/frontend/myCompany/myTheme/.

How do I disable filters by coding?
Can the filters be disabled from Magento admin?

Best Answer

In your theme directory create ( if the file is not existing already ) Magento_Catalog/layout/catalog_category_view.xml and remove the block by adding the following line <referenceBlock name="catalog.leftnav" remove="true" /> do not forget to add the xml needed nodes. Your code should look something like the below example.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <referenceBlock name="catalog.leftnav" remove="true"/>
    </body>
</page>

Related Solutions

Magento – Show a Category in Left-Side Menu Only

I had same problem, after some coding I made this in template/catalog/navigation/left.phtml:

first line:

<?php $ct = Mage::registry('current_category')->getID(); ?>

in the end of the file(before endif;)

<?php elseif( $ct == 92 || $ct == 85 || $ct == 224): ?>
<?php
$currentcategory = Mage::registry('current_category');
$subcategorys = explode(',' , $currentcategory->getChildren());


?>

<div class="block block-layered-nav">
    <div class="block-title">
        <strong><span><?php echo $this->__('Browse By') ?></span></strong>
    </div>
    <div class="block-content">
        <dl id="narrow-by-list2">
            <dt><?php echo $this->__('Category') ?></dt>
            <dd>
                <ol>
                <?php foreach($subcategorys as $cat): ?>
                     <?php $cate =  Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($cat); ?>
                    <li>

                        <a href="<?php echo $cate->getUrl()?>" <?php if ($this->isCategoryActive($cate)): ?> class="current"<?php endif; ?>><?php echo $this->escapeHtml($cate->getName()) ?>(<?php echo $cate->getProductCount() ?>) </a>                  
                    </li>
                <?php endforeach; ?>
                </ol>
            </dd>
        </dl>
        <script type="text/javascript">decorateDataList('narrow-by-list2')</script>
    </div>
</div>

<?php endif; ?>

Magento 1.9 – Using Attributes as Filters in Search and Category

Basically you need a way to remove some filters from the given categories from the admin panel. It can be done either by some improved layered navigation extension or just be using category layout updates.

Open the category edit page, switch to the "Custom Design" tab, and put the code in the "Custom Layout Update" field

<reference name="catalog.leftnav"> 
    <action method="unsetChild"><alias>shoes_size_filter</alias></action>
</reference>

Best Answer

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Magento – Show a Category in Left-Side Menu Only

Magento 1.9 – Using Attributes as Filters in Search and Category

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