The Magento Expert

Pager missing after updating to Magento 2.4.3?

Mex — Thu, 26 May 2022 08:18:54 +0000

Sometimes after updating to Magento 2.4.3 the pager on the category page goes missing. This happens when you are overwriting templates/product/list.phtml in your theme. Just open that file and replace

getToolbarHtml() ?>

with

getChildBlock('toolbar')->setIsBottom(true)->toHtml() ?>.

This should solve the problem, your pager should now be visible again.

Category page loading extremely slow

Mex — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 06:53:47 +0000

If the category page of your Magento store is loading really slow, the configurable swatches might be the problem. Override /app/code/core/Mage/ConfigurableSwatches/Helper/Mediafallback.php and move

// normalize to all lower case before we start using them
$optionLabels = array_map(function ($value) {
 return array_map('Mage_ConfigurableSwatches_Helper_Data::normalizeKey', $value);
}, $optionLabels);

up to before the foreach loop. This will help increasing the speed of your category page if Magento configurable swatches were causing the problem.

Change column count of category page in admin area (backend)

Mex — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:14:16 +0000

Open the category in the admin area (backend) and add the following xml to the layout update section.

Changing the category page column count programmatically

Mex — Mon, 05 May 2014 09:37:45 +0000

Add the following code to your themes catalog\product\list.phtml file. It will change the column count to 2.

$this->setColumnCount(2);

How to know if you are on the product or category page

Mex — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 09:47:06 +0000

YOu want to know if you are on either the product or category page? The following code might help:

$controllerName = $this->getRequest()->getControllerName();
$isCategoryPage = $controllerName == 'category' ? true : false;
$isProductPage = $controllerName == 'product' ? true : false;

if(...)