Magento : Shop By Category

Shop By Category in Magento HomePage : or Layered navigation in CMS page or front page . This is Very common problem  with every magento developers . After Banging my head here i am writing a simple back for this . This will display the output like this on homepage of magento

And here is the complete code .First of all go to CMS page of your homepage and add this refrence code in your design Layout Update XML tab

<reference name="left">
<block type="catalog/layer_view" before="-" 
name="catalog.leftnav" after="currency" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml"/>
</reference>

This will show the above picture result but when you’ll mouse over on it it will show the link like this

example.com/?cat=13 or similar like that but when you’ll click on it  , it will not work . so here is the million dollar hack for it

go to  app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Layer/Filter and open item.php

and replace your getUrl() function to the following one

public function getUrl()
    {
        if ($this->getFilter() instanceof Mage_Catalog_Model_Layer_Filter_Category) {
            $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($this->getValue());
            return $category->getUrl();
        } else {
            $query = array(
                $this->getFilter()->getRequestVar()=>$this->getValue(),
                Mage::getBlockSingleton('page/html_pager')->getPageVarName() => null // exclude current page from urls
            );
            return Mage::getUrl('*/*/*', array('_current'=>true, '_use_rewrite'=>true, '_query'=>$query));
        }
    }

enjoy 🙂