Magento – Show current category in layered navigation

layered-navigationmagento-1.9

In layered navigation view, my themes show which filters are currently applied to the view. However, it doesn't show which category you are currently in.

I guess I have to edit the state.phtml, but what would I add in order to get current category?

Best Answer

You can use magento registry variable

Mage::registry('current_category')

or use

Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer')->getCurrentCategory() for getting current category object

Second option is best

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Thanks Cags! I did a whole search and found out, one of the xml files was removing the category_filter by the unsetChild method. Thanks a ton.

So the answer is, if you stumble upon such errors, do a full file search with the block name, and you will find the culprit "xml" file which may be removing the block forcefully.

In my case this happened:

<catalog_category_layered>
        <reference name="catalog.leftnav">
            <action method="unsetChild"><name>category_filter</name></action>
        </reference>
</catalog_category_layered>

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See As per Magento Standard How the Layered Navigation will be display.

Layered Navigation will display Based on the Product listing.
Layered Navigation contain the Filterable option which the generally the product Attributes. So that will be display in layered navigation.
General logic Layered Navigation is Depended on the Product Listing.

In sort you can not display only Layered Navigation with your Products.

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