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Sidebar Navigation Menu Professional

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This extension will add a very useful and professional vertical navigation bar. The new block will add to right, left or both side columns with unique and nice design and lots of functionalities like showing categories thumbnail images, collapsible menus and more. With this category navigation users can navigate to all site categories simply and fast.
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Overview

Sidebar Navigation Menu Professional

Some stores need to have a vertical navigation menu, based on thier product categories. This extension will adds a new useful, professional and nice vertical navigation menu from all active categories to your website store.

Sidebar Navigation Menu can showing in right, left or both side columns. The extension has custom, unique and luxury design for each one of "default", "blue", "blank" and "modern" templates and also a custom desing for popular "templates-master f002 classic theme". Extension style will changes automatically between above designs or any other custom design create by you base on selected template for store.
As the extension has custom CSS, you can customise extension style base on your store design easily by editing the CSS files. Also the extension gives you more options to customise extension functionalities.
Some of intresting and powerfull functionalities of this extension are ability to showing thumbnail icons for each category in left side of category name, and having a collapsible navigation menu, when you enabled it in extension's settings.

Please note: before installing any extension, first test it on a simulator of your website, if there isn't any problem then install it on your original store.
Please note: don't forget, always make a backup of your original store before any new extension installation.

Key Features:

  • Full Free Extension
  • Showing Category Thumbnail
  • Collapsible Menus
  • Defining Parent Category
  • Showing Products Count
  • Column Selection
  • Custom Title
  • Categories Maximal Depth
  • Control Top Navigation Menu Visibility
  • Control Browse by Category in Layered Navigation
  • Custom Thumbnail Size
  • Multilingual (Translatable)
  • Separately Configuration for Each Store View
  • Dedicated CSS Files
  • Dedicated Layout File

Configuration Guide:

To change extension configuration settings please go to:
System > Configuration > CODNITIVE > Catalog > Sidebar Navigation Menu Professional

Changelog:

V 1.7.21
Fixed bugs:
- Loading category image instead thumbnail image

V 1.7.20
Improvement:
- Files and coding cleanup
- Coding improved

New features:
- Show/Hidden zero product count

Fixed bugs:
- Extra margin left when collapsible and thumbnails are enable

V 1.6.93
Improvement:
- New structure added to improve coding

Fixed bugs:
- "JS" and "CSS" loading problem in collapsible mode.

V 1.6.72
Improvement:
- Design improved

V 1.6.66
New features:
- Defining Parent Category
- Control Browse by Category in Layered Navigation

FAQ:

1. After installation, I see "error 404 page not found" in configuration section of the extension?
Just logout from your admin panel and login to it again.

2. I enabled extension from admin panel, but I don't see vertical navigation menu sidebar in my store frontend?
Your magento "Blocks HTML output" cache is enabled and you must refresh it.

3. How can I make sidebar navigation invisible in some pages (CMS pages like home page, or some catalog or product pages)?
You must add < remove name="sidenav.left" / > or < remove name="sidenav.right" / > codes (please remove first and last spaces) to "Custom Layout Update" section of that page or gategory.

4. How can I add sidebar navigation to CMS pages (like home page)?
You must add {{block type="sidenav/navigation" template="codnitive/sidenav/navigation.phtml"}} code to your CMS pages.

5. How can I use thumbnail image functionality?
Please go to configuration settings of the extension and change "Thumbnail Enabled" option to yes. Now all you must do is adding thumbnails for your categories in "Manage Categories" section, under Catalog menu.

6. How can move Sidebar Navigation Menu to another column?
Please go to configuration settings of the extension and select column which you want Sidebar Navigation Menu be visible inside it, by "Show In" option.

7. How can define a maximal depth for showing categories (for instance just 2 level of categories)?
Please go to configuration settings of the extension and enter categories level which you want be visible in sidebar navigation as a number, in "Maximal Depth" option.

8. Is it possible to hide top navigation if I use sidebar navigation?
Yes, it's possible. Just change "Remove Top Navigation Menu" option to "Yes" in configuration settings of the extension.

9. How can I have a dynamic collapsible menus in this sidebar menu navigation?
Please go to configuration settings of the extension and change "Collapsible" option to "Yes".

10. How can define parent category to show just some menus?
Please go to configuration settings of the extension and define parent category in "Parent Category" option.

11. I want remove "BROWSE BY" from layered navigation because it repeat my sub categories. can I do that with the extension?
Yes, you can. Please go to configuration settings of the extension and change "Remove Layered Navigation Category" option to "Yes".

Release Notes

Bug Fix

2012-02-26 17:30:50
  • Version number: 1.7.21
  • Stability: Stable
  • Compatibility: 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2.0
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Magento Connect 2.0

Magento Connect 2.0

Loading category image instead thumbnail image bug fixed.

Notes:

2012-02-25 13:16:33
  • Version number: 1.7.20
  • Stability: Stable
  • Compatibility: 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2.0
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Magento Connect 2.0

Magento Connect 2.0

Coding improved. New Setting added. Some design bugs fixed.

Bug Fix

2012-02-06 04:05:45
  • Version number: 1.6.94
  • Stability: Stable
  • Compatibility: 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1
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Magento Connect 2.0

Magento Connect 2.0

Don't show admin panel bug fixed

New Structure

2012-01-24 16:05:39
  • Version number: 1.6.93
  • Stability: Stable
  • Compatibility: 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1
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Magento Connect 2.0

Magento Connect 2.0

Extension coding changed to new improved structure.

Design Improve

2012-02-03 00:05:44
  • Version number: 1.6.72
  • Stability: Stable
  • Compatibility: 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1
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Magento Connect 2.0

Magento Connect 2.0

Some issues in design solved.
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It works 1.7.0.2 but no admin I saw this extension work as it show side nav but in Admin page it still no CODNITIVE control panel April 15, 2013
Nice extension! Nice and easy to use and customize. Great extension! April 6, 2013
Worked fine for me on 1.7 ce Easy install only issue was when I loaded it I got 404 from the admin page. Solved by logging out and logging in again as instructed. All very good so far. April 3, 2013
Works good but little question. Works like a charm on a custom template (1.7) However I'd like to put the sidebar navigation above the left bar layered filter stuff.. Any ideas on how to do this?? March 20, 2013
DO NOT INSTALL This installation bricked my entire store. Do not install on 1.7 under any circumstances. March 9, 2013
Works well, Thanks Great Extension.It helps to check the reviews and overview as most problems are fixed and posted...as i found out :P well done mate, robbie March 7, 2013
Thanks! Hi there and thank you for this one! Installed on 1.7 and works perfect! I have just one question, is there anyway I can change the topic texts on this one, as I dont have english on my site? Which file do I have to alter? March 7, 2013
Thank you, works great! Thank you for your quick support and patience. Regina February 27, 2013
I uninstalled this extension from my 1.7.0.2 site and now my site has this "Fatal error: Call to a member function setArea() on a non-object in /home/igarav/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Controller/Action.php on line 157". I have disabled the compiler and flushed the cache but to no avail. February 9, 2013
Working on 1.7.0.2. January 9, 2013
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This functionality tested and works on Magento default theme. Please check your custom theme.
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when I click one of sub category it goes to my category page. I want to keep expanded that parent category just to know in which category I am.
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Please open below file to edit:
[magento_root]/app/code/community/Codnitive/Sidenav/Block/Navigation.php

Search for $html[] = '<a href="' # $this->getCategoryUrl#$category# # '"' inside file #around line #217##

You must add #nClick="expandMenu#this.parentNode.parentNode#;return false;" to this <a> tag, when category has children.
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Hello,

I have installed this extension on Magento 1.7.0.2, and it appears to be working great!

I would like to assign two styles: one for the main categories, and one for subcategories. Could you please tell me how best to accomplish this?

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Hello,

First copy
[magento_root]/skin/frontend/default/default/css/sidenav.css
into same directory of your custom theme.

All main categories have "level0" class which you can customize them, and for all other subcategories use another style.
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in the right col i can see the thumbnails.
I have a standard magento installation.
What can solve this problem?

P.S. I clicked the link to your website, but I could not find the switch to another language
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You are using a custom theme or one of Magento's themes? Did you check design. Maybe there is a CSS which hides thumbnails. For example something like this:
.col-left li img { display:none; }
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How can I assign a class to a subcategory? The classes are in the sidenav.css, but in which file(s) are these classes assigned to individual subcategories?

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You should check "Codnitive_Sidenav_Block_Navigation::_renderCategoryMenuItemHtml()" in this path:
[magento_root]/app/code/community/Codnitive/Sidenav/Block/Navigation.php

Inside "_renderCategoryMenuItemHtml()" method there is a variable named "$classes" which is an array of category classes.
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Respective config tab shows 404 error...
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You just need to logout from your admin panel and login to it again.
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When we enable "Use Flat Catalog Category" in the Magento Backend, no more sub-categories are displayed in the sidebar navigation. Only the parent categories remain. Is this a known behaviour?
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I think i solved it myself. In app\code\community\codnitive\sidenav\block\Navigation.php at line 90 i changed to following:
$children = (array)$category->getChildrenNodes();
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Hi,

You can use extension's style sheet:
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Copy that into your theme CSS directory and customize list floats.
Also if you need to customize list (such as custom classes) you can modify "_renderCategoryMenuItemHtml()" method in this file:
[magento_root]/app/code/community/Codnitive/Sidenav/Block/Navigation.php
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Kompatibel mit 1.7?

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