Magento comes with category and sub category listing with a drop down system from default. But if you are getting any custom theme developed from any company, then you may not get that and it may happen sometime that,you will need that. So, here is a short snippet of code, which calls the Category and Sub-Category Drop down listing for the main navigation menu bar. Just open this file, /app/design/frontend/default/your-theme/template/page/html/header.phtml Just find the code where the menu items are defined. I hop,you can understand that much of php code in there :) So, just place this below code, [php]<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('topMenu')...

Running an Online Store in Magento can be a pain, if you dont understand its workflow. Here is a common question, which I see people asking here and there, i.e, "HOW TO SHOW A CATEGORY LISTING MENU ON THE MAGENTO SITE SIDEBAR". So, here is a simple way to get this done. So, lets start with creating a new block in the layout. So, goto this file, /app/design/frontend/default/your-theme/layout/catalog.xml And add this code in the left reference, [php]<reference name="left"> <block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.leftnav" template="catalog/navigation/left_nav.phtml" /> </reference>[/php] ...

I was working on a client's site, where he wanted to show his categories of his store in a nice vertical and horizontal listing manner. Then I took help of a Magento Hero, Doug from USA and he helped me in getting this done. I would like to share the code with you guys. This will only let you do this (check the pciture below).  But in another tutorial, I will write how to get those category listing with category images next to it shown nicely. For now, stay with this. Ok here is how to get this done.. First create a category_groups.phtml and put it inside your /app/design/frontend/default/your-theme/template/catalog/navigation/ The code for catego...