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How do I get Layered Navigation to work on the left side of the Home Page?

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How do I get layered navigation on the left side of the Home Page?  It seems like a relatively simple thing to do, but I’ve seen a number of posts without a straightforward answer.  The method on http://www.noamdesign.com/blog/magento-include-layered-navigation-in-cms-page-listing-products/ was helpful, but does not seem to work on the Home page.  Although the Shop by bar appears where it should, it doesn’t filter or display products properly. 

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  1. Magentist on Aug 09, 2010 Reply

    Hi jpgm,

    My guess is that this doesn’t work because your homepage is not a category page. The layered navigation pulls information from each category to filter the results. So if it’s not on a category page, there’s no information to populate with.

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  2. Magento Expert on Aug 09, 2010 Reply

    Here’s how to get the layered navigation to show up on any CMS page – including the home page if you’d like:

    http://www.noamdesign.com/blog/magento-include-layered-navigation-in-cms-page-listing-products/

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  3. Bryan D Fly on Nov 28, 2010 Reply

    When I add 

    <reference name="left">
<block type="catalog/layer_view" name="catalog.leftnav" before="-" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml"/>
</reference>
    into my page I get 2 layered navigations… any ideas?

    thanks.

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  4. baber on Jul 11, 2011 Reply

    @ i have same issue as bryan has layered navigation displying three times. and one more fucked up its showing 1 times on home page

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