This is just a quick post about how to change the “Category” wording on the layered navigation of a site. I needed to change it to “Brand” and it took me a few minutes to locate the correct files as the developer guide lines were not showing up. I thought for this reason I will make a quick note of it here on my blog.

The file you need to look in is:

/shop/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/navigation/left.phtml

Remember default/default should be changed to your current interface and theme for the site.

In this file around line 46 you should see a line of code looking like this:

__('Category') ?>

Change this to whatever you want to display eg. ‘Brand’. So my line will now look like:

__('Brand') ?>

Save the file and hit refresh and voila! New title in your layered navigation.

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