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Related products on product page in Magento

Move related products from default sidebar location into main product page in Magento.

1. Open catalog.xml, found in
app/design/frontend/default/YOURTEMPLATEFOLDER/layout/

2. In catalog.xml find the catalog_product_view section, around line 205. In the section, remove or comment out:

<block type="catalog/product_list_related" name="catalog.product.related" before="-" template="catalog/product/list/related.phtml"/>

and replace with:

<reference name="content">
<block type="catalog/product_view" name="product.info" template="catalog/product/view.phtml">
<block type="catalog/product_list_related" name="catalog.product.related" as="related" template="catalog/product/list/related.phtml"/>
</block>
</reference>

3. Now in your catalog/product/view.phtml you can print out the related products using

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('related'); ?>

To edit the look of that list, edit catalog/product/list/related.phtml

DEMO

This demo shows a 1 column design with the related products down the right handside in a Horizontal Carousel. View Demo

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13 Comments

1. amit soni July 29, 2010

   it doesnot work for me.I did same opertions as told by you.Can you figure out why

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3. admin July 29, 2010

   Which version of Magento are you using? This was tried and tested on 1.4x

   Are you receiving any Magento errors messages?
   Also, take a look through your server logs and let me know.

   If you still can’t get it to work then send me a mail, using the contact form, and I’ll get it working for you.

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5. mahesh March 24, 2011

   It is not working for me also, not outputting anything, from where to upload realted products? i uploade from catlog->manage products->edit->related product

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7. admin March 24, 2011

   ok guys, will do some checks… are you using 1.4x?

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9. admin March 24, 2011

   Are you definitely using the 1 column layout for this?

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11. admin March 24, 2011

    I’ve sent you an email, I would like to try and get to the bottom of this, as it works fine for me. Can you supply me with access so that I can check for you?

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13. mahesh March 25, 2011

    I got solution for my problem, its working now…thank u

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15. admin March 25, 2011

    @mahesh, when you get a moment, could you let everyone know what the problem was?… was there anything missing from the explanation above?

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17. Mahesh March 25, 2011

    Hi - The file name related.phtml was changed to view-related.phtml by my coligue. When i follow the instructions above properly, it starts working….
    thanks for the help.

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19. Raju May 4, 2011

    Hi
    This worked for me thanks.
    Please check you are declaring the block at right place in xml file.

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21. Damo May 27, 2011

    Hi,
    Great article on moving the related products block to the middle column thanks - how would I get this to work with the hellowired theme and show as a tab? I have upsell on a tab in catalgoue.xml like this…
    upsell_productsAlternativescatalog/product_list_upsellcatalog/product/list/upsell.phtml

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23. Damo May 27, 2011

    upsell_products Alternatives catalog/product_list_upsellcatalog/product/list/upsell.phtml

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25. selepok October 7, 2011

    Thank you very much!

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