Shop By Category in Magento HomePage

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 

So here is complete solution . 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>

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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

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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)); } }

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