layered-navigation
How can I make the layered navigation to appear on my site home page ( or any other pages)
I have a default category and a laptop category with “is anchor” set to YES.
These categories contains products with price.
The attribute price is set as filterable.
I still see no layered navigation appearing. What can be missing?
You will only be able to do this hardcoded.
So filtering out the manufacturer and category on the left side and creating a custom PHTML file that generates links/dropdowns for the manufacturer and category in the center.
so in app/design/frontend/[template]/[package]/template/catalog/layer/view.phtml around line 49 edit
<?php if($_filter->getItemsCount() && ($_filter->getName()!='manufacturer' || $_filter->getName()!='categories')): ?>
<dt><?php echo $this->__($_filter->getName()) ?></dt>
<dd><?php echo $_filter->getHtml() ?></dd>
<?php endif; ?>
Would eliminate manufacturer and categories from the list. Optionally try to use getCode, I think that would return the attribute_code instead of the name.
For your center layered navigation create a new PHTML file and add it to the layout
<reference name="content">
<block type="core/template" name="center_layered_nav" template="catalog/layer/center.phtml"/>
</reference>
and in the file catalog/layer/center.phtml something like this
<form method="GET" id="center_layered">
<select name="manufacturer" onchange="document.getElementById('center_layered').submit();">
<?php
$attribute = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config')->getAttribute('catalog_product', 'manufacturer');
$options = $attribute->getSource()->getAllOptions(false);
foreach ($options as $option)
{
echo '<option value="'.$option['value'].'">'.$option['label'].'</option>';
}
?>
</select>
</form>
when a user selects a manufacturer it should add manufacturer to the layered navigation URL. Manufacturer does have to be a filterable attribute tho.
This is highly untested code so may need a tweak or two but it's basically what you need. And I'm in no way pretending this is best practice but as far as I know it's the only way to do it.
The answer is: It's the fault of the Lesti Full Page Cache - Lesti FPC Module.
In System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> System the new URI Parameters for the filters must be added!
I hadn't thought of that and actually thought it would add these or any new filters automatically - but it does not.
As for the '38-FR40' Problem .... I may ask that in a seperate question to avoid confusion with the title.
Best Answer
I am not sure how your homepage is configured, but by default you can't make it happen.
Try adding a Category block on your homepage, by adding
{{block type="catalog/product_list" category_id="8" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}on you Homepage CMS's page content. Replace category_id with your category's id.
Cheers.