How to show 'Price', 'Size' and 'Brand' filtering on Shop By section

For very long time I am not actively writing to my blog, I am starting again now, lets start with a basic one.

"How to show 'Price', 'Size' and 'Brand' filtering on Shop By section?"

Lets say we are creating our own custom attribute (many time we need that, below is the process to create custom attribute)

Go to magento Admin panel->Catalog->Attributes->Manage Attribute, click on 'Add New Attribute' this will open a form to add information about the attribute.

Next step is to set the 'Attribute Properties' like attribute code, scope etc. and 'Frontend Properties'. Our answer to above question is here:

To make the attributes on Shop By filtering, Go to 'Frontend Properties' and select 'Filterable (with result/no result)' option to 'Use in layered navigation', you can also select 'yes' to 'Use in search result layered navigation'.

Thanks,

Magento compilation process

Compilation is introduce in Magento 1.6 and above. These versions by default has a compilation tool built into it. The compiler is disabled and your files have not been compiled initally when you configure the megento for first time. Basically the compilation process allows you to compile all the installation files in the Magento to create a single include path. This can increase performance by 30%-50%. This is useful for large website where performance matters, below are the steps to run the compolation process.

Steps for compilation process:

1) Login in to Admin panel.
2) Go to Admin»System»Tools»Compilation
3) Click on 'Run Compilation' this will compile all the installation files.
4) This will take a while and after sucessful compilation it will give status message.