How do I display a dropdown list in the Magento left sidebar?

Question

Qaisar Satti · Answer

customization

There is not magneto customization limit for magneto you can go as far you want to go expect you cannot change the core of magento.

500 Products

You don’t need to modify the db. Only load the attribute e.g(name,price & etc) you want to use it. I still say use the pagination for fast loading. Enable the cache it will speed up the page loading.

Anonymous · Answer

I figured this out.
Solution 1:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23635223/magento-dropdown-in-the-left-sidebar-display-incorrectly
If this doen't work:
Solution 2: (this is not ideal but work in my case as I have no label type, I set the label type from 1 to -1, and added a default):
[code]%3Col %3C?php if ($this-%3EgetCollapsed() && !$this-%3EgetHasSelection()): ?%3Estyle="display:none" %3C?php endif ?%3E%3E
%3C?php
switch ($this-%3EgetDisplayType()){
    case -1: // labels only
        foreach ($this-%3EgetItemsAsArray() as $item){
            echo '%3Cli '.$item['style'].'%3E%3Ca class="'.$item['css'].'" href="'.$item['url'].'"%3E'. $item['label'] . '%3C/a%3E' . $item['count'] . '%3C/li%3E';
        }
    break;
    
    case 1: // images only
        echo '%3Cli%3E';
        foreach ($this-%3EgetItemsAsArray() as $item){
            echo '%3Ca '.$item['style'].' class="'.$item['css'].'" href="'.$item['url'].'"%3E%3Cimg src="'.$item['image'].'" title="'. $item['label'] .'" alt="'. $item['label'] .'"%3E%3C/a%3E';
        }
        echo '%3C/li%3E';
    break;
    
    case 2: // images and labels
        foreach ($this-%3EgetItemsAsArray() as $item){
            echo '%3Cli '.$item['style'].'%3E%3Ca class="'.$item['css'].'" href="'.$item['url'].'"%3E';
            if (!empty($item['image'])){
                echo '%3Cimg src="'.$item['image'].'" title="'. $item['label'] .'" alt="'. $item['label'] .'"%3E';
            }
            echo $item['label'] . '%3C/a%3E' . $item['count'] . '%3C/li%3E';
        }
    break;
    
    case 3: // dropdown
        echo '%3Cli%3E%3Cselect onchange="if (this.value) setLocation(this.value)" class="amshopby-select amshopby-ajax-select"%3E';
        //echo '%3Coption value=""%3E' . $this-%3EgetName() . '%3C/option%3E';
        echo '%3Coption value="'.$this-%3EgetRemoveUrl().'"%3E%3C/option%3E';
        foreach ($this-%3EgetItemsAsArray() as $item){
            echo '%3Coption '.$item['css'].' value="'.$item['url'].'"%3E'. $item['label'] . $item['count'] . '%3C/option%3E';
        }
        echo '%3C/select%3E%3C/li%3E';
    break;
    
    case 4: // 2 columns
        $items = $this-%3EgetItemsAsArray(); 
        $size  = sizeof($items);
        $half  =  ceil($size/2);
        
        echo '%3Cli%3E';
        echo '%3Cdiv class="amshopby-column"%3E';
        for ($i=0; $i%3C$half; $i++){
            $item = $items[$i];
            echo '%3Ca class="'.$item['css'].'" href="'.$item['url'].'"%3E'. $item['label'] . '%3C/a%3E' . $item['count'] . '%3Cbr/%3E';
        }
        echo '%3C/div%3E';
        echo '%3Cdiv class="amshopby-column"%3E';
        for ($i=$half; $i%3C$size; $i++){
            $item = $items[$i];
            echo '%3Ca class="'.$item['css'].'" href="'.$item['url'].'"%3E'. $item['label'] . '%3C/a%3E' . $item['count']. '%3Cbr/%3E';
        }
        echo '%3C/div%3E';
        echo '%3C/li%3E';
    break;

default:
        echo '%3Cli%3E%3Cselect onchange="if (this.value) setLocation(this.value)" class="amshopby-select amshopby-ajax-select"%3E';
        //echo '%3Coption value=""%3E' . $this-%3EgetName() . '%3C/option%3E';
        echo '%3Coption value="'.$this-%3EgetRemoveUrl().'"%3E%3C/option%3E';
        foreach ($this-%3EgetItemsAsArray() as $item){
            echo '%3Coption '.$item['css'].' value="'.$item['url'].'"%3E'. $item['label'] . $item['count'] . '%3C/option%3E';
        }
        echo '%3C/select%3E%3C/li%3E';

}

if ($this-%3EgetDisplayType() %3C 3 && $this-%3EgetShowLessMore()){
    echo '%3Cli class="amshopby-clearer"%3E%3Ca id="amshopby-more-'.$this-%3EgetRequestValue().'" class="amshopby-more" href="#"%3E' . $this-%3E__('More ...') . '%3C/a%3E%3C/li%3E';
    echo '%3Cli class="amshopby-clearer"%3E%3Ca id="amshopby-less-'.$this-%3EgetRequestValue().'" class="amshopby-less" href="#" style="display:none"%3E' . $this-%3E__('Less ...') . '%3C/a%3E%3C/li%3E';
} 
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Milople Technologies · Answer

To configure a Magento 2 mega menu:

1. Install a Mega Menu Extension: Use a compatible extension from Magento Marketplace.
2. Access the Menu Configuration: Go to the extension settings in the Magento admin panel.
3. Create and Configure Menu Items: Add categories, links, and content to the mega menu.
4. Set Up Display Options: Customize appearance and layout settings.
5. Save and Deploy: Save changes and clear the cache to apply the new menu.

Nick Bordeau · Answer

This is certainly possible. You wouldn’t have to modify the database at all because it just stores the data. On top of that you wouldn’t even have to edit any template code. You would simply have to edit the catalog display listing setting in the admin to update the default display amount to 500.

Hope that helps!

Joseph Quinn · Answer

Navigate to appearance %3E menus. If you havent yet created a menu, click new menu. Add all the pages you want to appear in your menu.

To make the menu a drop down simply drag your sub menu item to the right underneath your top level menu item.

Click save menu.

This will create a drop down menu on hover. If you're looking to create a mega menu you will need a plugin like Jet Menu.

https://wpexplaind.com/go/jet-menu/

Anonymous · Answer

Using the Ajax-based advanced layered navigation module [ https://store.webkul.com/magento2-ajax-layered-navigation.html ] you can easily improve the layered navigation experience in your Magento 2 store.

Why Advance Layered Navigation is Important?

Ajax-based advanced layered navigation allows shoppers to filter products by Categories, Colors, Product Attribute, etc and even it helps shoppers to optimize the filtering of products based on product attributes.

This helps customers to experience the next level filtration of products that helps the customers to remove unsuitable products from the result product page in order to save more shopping time.

Furthermore, Ajax-based layered navigation means, customers get the result without reloading of the result page.

Why should we go with an Ajax-based advanced layered navigation module in Magento 2?

* The ajax-based filter means, customers don’t need to wait for the page reload to get the filter results.
 * Filter the result based on the product attribute.
 * Select multiple attributes and attribute values at a time to filter the result.
 * Works on category and search pages.
 * Filter by product rating.
 * Filter by attribute in the carousel.
 * Filter using the impressive price bar.
How does Ajax Layered Navigation for Magento 2 work?

After the successful installation of the module, the admin can easily configure the functionality of the module from the admin panel easily.

Furthermore, the admin can create multiple attributes and configure the attribute properties for the proper working of the module with the layered navigation.

after successfully creating the product attributes, now you can assign the created product attribute to a product.

Moreover, Ajax Layered Navigation for Magento 2 allows the store owner to create the carousel based filter for the customers.

The customers can filter the products based on the carousels.

Customer End -

Now, after successfully configuring the module, the customer can filter the products based on the multiple options available to filter the products. Thus, the customer can save their time to shop and find out the desired product with minimum efforts.

This will surely gonna boost the conversation rate and that will help to generate more sales.

To learn more how does Ajax Layered Navigation for Magento 2 work click here [ https://webkul.com/blog/advanced-layered-navigation-magento2/ ].

Subramanyam.D · Answer

* I suggest you to develop using Bootstrap.
 * Better to visit Bootstrap4 Website and Visit the Documentation you can copy the code.

Mohan Natarajan · Answer

You can do simple admin configuration and increase the number of products in a single page.

Please login to Magento admin and go to System-%3EConfiguration-%3ECatalog-%3Ecatalog

Update 500 for Product per page on Grid Default value and same as for List Default value.

Bette Daoust · Answer

You would need to set up your menus first then have your menus display on your sidebar.

Shubham Vijay · Answer

This example is with cars, but I applied to your case it would look something like this:

You could start with a CSV file containing all the states/districts, like this:

[code]State,District
Alabama,"District 1"
Alabame,"District 2"
....
[/code]save it as states_districts.csv and place it somewhere on your server. (In this example I placed it in the wp-content/uploads folder)

Then using the contact form 7 plugin create 2 select fields:

[code][select states]
[select districts]
[/code]Next, create some javascript in your page's footer, that will perform an AJAX call

[code]%3Cscript%3E
(function($) {

// create references to the dropdown fields for later use.

var $states_dd = $('[name="states"]');
    var $districts_dd = $('[name="districts"]');

// run the populate_fields function, and additionally run it every time a value changes

populate_fields();
    $('select').change(function() {
        populate_fields();
    });

function populate_fields() {

var data = {

// action needs to match the action hook part after wp_ajax_nopriv_ and wp_ajax_ in the server side script.

'action' : 'cf7_populate_values',

// pass all the currently selected values to the server side script.

'state' : $states_dd.val(),
            'district' : $districts_dd.val(),
        };

// call the server side script, and on completion, update all dropdown lists with the received values.

$.post('%3C?php echo admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php' ) ?%3E', data, function(response) {
            all_values = response;

$states_dd.html('').append($('%3Coption%3E').text(' -- choose state -- '));
            $districts_dd.html('').append($('%3Coption%3E').text(' -- choose district  -- '));

$.each(all_values.states, function() {
                $option = $("%3Coption%3E").text(this).val(this);
                if (all_values.current_state == this) {
                    $option.attr('selected','selected');
                }
                $states_dd.append($option);
            });
            $.each(all_values.districts, function() {
                $option = $("%3Coption%3E").text(this).val(this);
                if (all_values.current_district == this) {
                    $option.attr('selected','selected');
                }
                $districts_dd.append($option);
            });
        },'json');
    }

})( jQuery );
%3C/script%3E
[/code]Finish up by creating your server side function that will read in the CSV file and return the correct values to the javascript:

add this to functions.php:

[code]function ajax_cf7_populate_values() {

// read the CSV file in the $states_districts array

$states_districts = array();
    $uploads_folder = wp_upload_dir()['basedir'];
    $file = fopen($uploads_folder.'\states_districts.csv', 'r');

$firstline = true;
    while (($line = fgetcsv($file)) !== FALSE) {
        if ($firstline) {
            $firstline = false;
            continue;
        }
        $states_districts[$line[0]][$line[1]][] = $line[2];

}
    fclose($file);

// setup the initial array that will be returned to the the client side script as a JSON object.

$return_array = array(
            'states' =%3E array_keys($states_districts),
            'districts' =%3E array(),
            'current_state' =%3E false,
            'current_district' =%3E false
        );

// collect the posted values from the submitted form

$state= key_exists('state', $_POST) ? $_POST['state'] : false;
    $district = key_exists('district', $_POST) ? $_POST['district'] : false;

// populate the $return_array with the necessary values

if ($state) {
        $return_array['current_state'] = $state;
        $return_array['districts'] = array_keys($states_districts[$state]);
        if ($district) {
            $return_array['current_district'] = $district;
        }

// encode the $return_array as a JSON object and echo it

echo json_encode($return_array);
        wp_die();

}

// These action hooks are needed to tell WordPress that the cf7_populate_values() function needs to be called
// if a script is POSTing the action : 'cf7_populate_values'

add_action( 'wp_ajax_cf7_populate_values', 'ajax_cf7_populate_values' );
add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_cf7_populate_values', 'ajax_cf7_populate_values' );
[/code]

Matt Gilmore · Answer

To change the category layout, go to Products -%3E Categories -%3E Select your desired Category go to the Design tab and select desired option from the Layout dropdown.

Akashdeep Dhar · Answer

Thanks for A2A.

You need to install a custom menu plugin in order to make this happen. Some of the best examples of custom menu plugins are MyThemeShop’s WP Mega Menu, Superfly, Slick etc. Once installed the steps are pretty straightforward to create a menu. You can even create cascading drop down menus with fancy animations and transitions. Pretty cool right?

Now that you have created the menu, you need to add that to your page. Even that is a pretty simple deal. Just navigate to the Appearence option on your sidebar and click on Widgets. Here you would be able to specify where exactly your menu with appear, all while having your menu stay persistent in all of the pages in your website.

Let me know in the comments if you have any question. I would be more than pleased to address them. Cheers!

Ahmad Haider · Answer

The html has 2 classes “dropdown” and “dropdown-content”. Sementically, this styles means that when someone hovers(mouseover) on the dropdown, the dropdown content( dropdown options) are shown. When mouseout happens, dropdown connects gets hide back

Taylor Ren · Answer

It is called “Cascading” menus.

Normally, it will require a JS knowledge and will be easier to be implemented with some ready-made JS tools.

Not sure how much is your knowledge in JS. But I am pretty sure if you have some grasping on jQuery and MySQL, it is not a very difficult task.

Michelle Tremblay · Answer

There are a few ways that you can create a sidebar menu in Shopify. One way is to use the built in Shopify menu system. Another way is to use a third-party app or plugin. And finally, you can also code your own sidebar menu.

Anuj Sharma · Answer

To create a simple menu in Magento 2. Follow simple steps:

Go to Products %3E Categories in the admin panel.

Parth Sharma · Answer

If you have a budget of $60-$180 you can search for Shopify Themes that have the sidebar with filter that you are looking for. You can try the Shopify Theme Store or Envato Theme Forest.

Akshay Jani · Answer

There are many reasons of it, few of them are mentioned below and still you will not find any solution then connect me on akshayjani42@gm**.com

1. Check in Chrome inspector tool, sidebar is still present or not ?
2. Find (Ctrl + F) in Chrome inspector “id=”sidebar””. if its there then you needs to add some of css to make it visible
3. If Sidebar is not present in chrome inspector then it needs to rectify from backend.

Mobiloitte · Answer

Setting Up Custom Fields

1.Log in to your Admin Area and go to Settings %3E Custom Fields.

2.Click on the ID number of a custom field entry to edit an existing field or click Add to create a new one.

There are two types of custom fields that can be created: Customers-based, which provide questions asked once when a customer registers with the store and Orders-based which present questions to customers each time they create an order.

3.Select a field type from the Table Name menu.

4.  the  custom field's settings, set Alias to something related to the question (for example, "HowFound" if the question is "How did you find us?")

5.Enter the appropriate question in the Question field (for example, the prompt the customer sees, such as "How did you find our site?"

6. Optionally, you can enter additional text into the Question  field to provide customers an instructional for the custom field (for example, suggested answers). This is displayed after the field.

7.Now, select the Input Type:

Textbox – to provide a textbox customersinto can type a response

Checkbox – to provide options for users to click on (such as "I agree to these terms")

Dropdown – to provide a drop-down list of possible responses

8. This is a required field, so you must enter a value even if you selected the Checkbox or Dropdown Input Type. In these cases, the value you enter has no impact on the field. a value for the Input Max Length field to define the maximum number of characters customers can enter in the textboxEnter

9.Enter a numeric value into the Placement Order field to define the order in which this field will appear, in relation to any other custom fields you create.

10.Check the Is Required option to force customers to enter some value into the custom field.

11.Enable the Is Public? option to display this custom field to customers. Uncheck to hide. The default is hide.

12.Click the Show On Invoices option if you want to display the content of all custom fields on a customer's invoice.

13.When finished, click Save.

* While the Question Subtext field supports HTML, the Question field does not. The following characters are not valid in the Question field, and may cause errors at checkout: " %3E %3C ; '

Dropdown Options

Note that if you choose the Dropdown input type, a list of options for the drop-down menu must be provided for customers to choose from. To do this, click on the Filter menu on the Custom Fields table and choose Custom Fields Dropdown Values.

Click Add to begin creating a drop-down field value.

1.From the Custom Fields ID menu, select the custom field you wish to apply the drop-down option

2.Enter a Title for this option. This is what will be displayed in the drop-down list.

3.Enter a Value. This is the value that will be recorded when this option is selected.

4.Enter a numeric value into the Placement Order field to define where this option will appear within the drop-down list.

5.Click Save to create the value.

Prasad G. Wandre · Answer

You can use Widgets for displaying links in sidebar.

Most of the links displayed in sidebar are actually widgets. They can be added to the sidebar from the WordPress admin area -%3E Appearance -%3E Widgets.

Select the widget you wish to be displayed in your sidebar and click the Add button. When you are ready, click Save Changes and your widgets/links will be added to your sidebar.