FAQ: Improved Layered Navigation

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Usually, the extension is compatible with the majority of custom themes right out of the box and doesn't require any additional tweaking.

But in case there are any issues, our support specialists will eliminate them for free.

Yes, since our Improved Magento Layered Navigation is SEO friendly, you can choose whether a page with applied filters should be indexed by Google or not. If you don't want the URL with filter parameters to be indexed, just enable "Robots Noindex tag". If you want to create landing pages for popular filters with meta data and short URL, please, proceed to the full answer.

Yes, it is a native Magento feature and it is supported by our Improved Layered Navigation. Just choose whether to display price attribute in Layered Navigation. See the full answer to get step-by-step instructions.

The expand/collapse functionality for the filters should be provided from the theme's side. Our extension does not make the filters expandable out of the box.

Yes, if you have a lot of attributes, our Improved navigation extension allows choosing an appropriate view of attribute values: a search bar (1), a scroll bar (2) and/or a show more/less option (3). Here is an example: 

If you want the attribute to be filterable in layered navigation it must be created with dropdown, multiselect, price or visual swatch input types.

This behavior is a peculiarity of Magento default indexing. It summarizes information on all the simple products and assigns it to the configurable products.

However, we added the setting to Improved Layered Navigation v 2.17.0 to allow you to change it. To exclude out-of-stock configurable options from navigation, update the extension to the latest version and go to Stores > Configuration > Improved Layered Navigation > General. Then set the Exclude 'Out of Stock' Configurable Options from Navigation field to Yes and Save.

While switching your website to a new version of the platform you need to take into account the Improved Layered Navigation for Magento 2 has the different logic of the URL building. See all the details in a complete answer.