Providing a better navigation to your customers is the number one thing you should be doing at your ecommerce site.
Since 2016, we have repeatedly share with you the best of what we have - our experience and knowledge. You’ve probably been excited about layered navigation in famous brand stores. Also you might have seen the practical guide that contains the information with layered navigation practices separately for Magento and Magento 2 versions.
Today, let us introduce new features for the Magento 2 ajax layered navigation module. Even better layered navigation starts here.
What’s about new features
The recent 1.2.0 release brings the following changes:
- Added multiple mode and tooltip (popup)
- Added amazon like category list style
- Added infinite scroll
- Added reset option
- Added all-products page
- Split and refactored js code
- Override swatches template
- Add unit tests
- Multiple small updates.
Infinite Scrolling feature
It will help you keep the visitors stay on your website longer. You know that the feature loads the next page results when a user is scrolling down a page without interrupting the whole browsing process. Providing customers with a continues scrolling effect, you boost user engagement with the content. Plus, you improve the overall users' experience by getting them less focused on the process of navigating to the next page.
Reset option
Users were always looking for the ways that simplify the navigation and purchase process. Check out one more thing for easy to use navigation. Now you allow users reset all filters that were applied while navigation. No page reload. Your customers can search the products again.
Amazon-like category list style option
The e-commerce giant as Amazon ushered many trends at e-commerce sites. Hope you might like the following Amazon-like option. Now you can show to a customer the product category filter with related subcategories filters below. No need to apply multiple filter attributes. The option saves the user time.
Tooltip with product quantity
The new release comes with an opportunity to show users the number of products available in the category chosen by one or another filter. When a filter is clicked on, a tooltip will popup with product quantity. This option is a must have for positive user experience, especially on mobile devices.
All-products page feature
The new release brings all-products page option, that allows you to navigate customers to the page where they can see all products with the same filter's value. Thus users can choose the similar products. And you, on the other hand, get the opportunity to sell more.
All of this will ensure that your layered navigation is easy for your audience to use. See what else you get with Ajax Layered Navigation module at your Magento 2 site.
The list of features goes on and on
Since first module release you do have many useful options, so let’s talk briefly through a few of them.
- Sticky layered navigation
- Slide out sidebar with filters
- Search line in layered navigation block
- Rounded style for color options. Perfect for mobile users.
- Custom layered navigation filters: New, On sale, In stock.
- Expanded filter block. You can set all of the “filters” visible all the time.
What’s next?
Now ask yourself. What did you do to improve layered navigation at your site? Did you implement a couple of tricks mentioned in our previous posts?
If not yet, try again with the new release of Ajax Layered Navigation for Magento 2. If yes, please share your thoughts with us. We'd appreciate.
