Magento Remove Category from left Navigation

Magento By default shows the Category on the left side navigation but sometime we don't require to show the category on left side

so easy way to remove just open the following file and



app/design/frontend/default/yourtheme/catalog/layer/view.phtml

at line no 48 of the following file add the following if condition

<?php if($this->canShowBlock()): ?>

<div class=”box layered-nav”>

<div class=”head”>

<h3><?php echo $this->__(’Shop by’) ?></h3>

</div>

<div class=”border-creator”>

<?php echo $this->getStateHtml() ?>

<?php if($this->canShowOptions()): ?>

<div class=”narrow-by”>

<h4><?php echo $this->__(’Browsing Options’) ?></h4>

<dl id=”narrow-by-list”>

<?php $_filters = $this->getFilters() ?>

<?php foreach ($_filters as $_filter): ?>

<?php if($_filter->getItemsCount()): ?>

<?php if($_filter->getName() != “Category”){ ?>

<dt><?php echo $this->__($_filter->getName()) ?></dt>

<dd>

<?php echo $_filter->getHtml() ?>

</dd>

<?php } endif; ?>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</dl>

<script type=”text/javascript”>decorateDataList(’narrow-by-list’)</script>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

that's it your category will get removed