Additional Sidebox For Size Category Required

Does anyone know of a mod that would allow me to go from this:

To This????:

I have the stock_by_attributes_4-7MULTIADD mod already installed, so each of the products that I list will have their own individual size. It's just that I plan on creating a rather large site and from a customers point of view, they'll really need to be able to filter the products by size.

Some of the major clothing sites out there all use a size filter on the left as I've indicated in the second screenshot.

Any helpful advice would be extremely well appreciated.

You can make a category for each size, and copy>link each product into the sizes that apply to it. With the categories sorted in the correct order, you can use Categories Dressing to group the sizes and show them in a separate box that looks like the main categories box.

This might not work as you want because the individual sizes are not actually separate products; they are separate stock in one overall product.

I think it would be possible to create a filter to search on attributes, but it would have to be custom coded, and is really a job for a pro.

I wasn't really wanting to have size categories as it might put people off browsing. I'd prefer they were filters but if it's a programming challenge then I'll have to forget it.

If you do hear of a mod that might help, please keep me in mind :-)

I installed the Categories Dressing mod but it was very complicated to me and I couldn't figure out how to "group the sizes and show them in a separate box that looks like the main categories box."

I think this would be ideal.

If then I had some size 8 dresses, some size 8 jeans and some size 8 tops, if someone clicks the size 8 category then they'd see only size 8 items. So long as I'd done the category linking right. Correct?

I installed this mod and no matter what I did to the stylesheet_categories_dressing.css or the categories_dressing_defines.php files I could not get the category headings to move down and below "all products" let alone appear in new, dedicated box for sizes.

You are correct about the size linking. As for the rest, it is addressed in the Categories Dressing support thread.