New version of ByAttribute
Monday, 24 May 2010With our Magento extension ByAttribute, it is possible to display listings of product-attributes which may give a huge boost to your SEO-ranking. A new version of the ByAttribute-module - version 0.9.9 - is now available.
What ByAttribute does
Displaying a list of manufacturers is a demand often made by Magento users, but it's not part of the Magento core-functionality. So we decided to put together the right code to create such a listing. This is the main functionality of ByAttribute, but there's a lot more to it.
But instead of sticking to only the attribute manufacturer, we made our ByAttribute module as flexible as possible: You can display a listing of the values of any product-attribute (manufacturer, color, size, tag). For every value (Acer, AMD, Apple) you can click on the link and end up on a product overview-page.
New feature: Overview-pages
Before, the ByAttribute-module was depending on two Magento pieces: The Layered Navigation and/or the Advanced Search. When you clicked on a link of a specific attribute-value, you will end up on a product-overview page, displaying products with that specific attribute-value (for instance: all products with the color black).
When Magento Layered Navigation is used, ByAttribute just hooks into that - integrating the block seemlessly into the existing Magento functionality. But if Layered Navigation is not used, there needed to be a fallback mechanism. In earlier versions this functionality came from the search-module, but the way products are shown in a search-result is different than a regulier category-page.
With the new version, ByAttribute adds it's own overview-page, reusing the default category-template. This way, customers will experience products in ByAttribute in exactly the same way as the default catalog-behaviour. Which of course adds to the liking of your site.
More information
More information on our Yireo ByAttribute module can be found on the product page.