Magento Layered Navigation block. Move to center

Question

In category.xml I'm changing the reference name in:

    <reference name="left">
        <block type="catalog/layer_view" name="catalog.leftnav" before="-" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml"/>
    </reference>

To content which I assumed would place the layered nav into the center. However, it still stays on the left. In fact, even I changed left to right, and it still doesn't move from the left sidebar.

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

I managed to fix this (for anyone else who encounters this problem) by commenting out or deleting the below call in catelog.xml:

<reference name="left">
    <block type="catalog/layer_view" name="catalog.leftnav" before="-" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml"/>
</reference>

Then adding this line within the name="product_list" block just below.

<block type="catalog/layer_view" name="filter" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml"/>

Then within list.phtml echo it like: <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('filter');?>

Answer 2

Could you please provide more information like in which package/theme you are doing this change and if that package/theme is also actually selected in the admin.

It could also be a caching issue, when its enabled. Have you tried flushing it in System > Cache management ?

Perhaps a bit of topic: but best practice is to always do XML layout changes via the local.xml file instead of directly in for example base/default XML files. But perhaps you already knew about this.