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Amasty Layered Navigation vs. Mageplaza Layered Navigation

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With thousands of products in an online store, customers often find it difficult to search for products that meet their specific needs. Browsing through a long list of products without any filters can be tedious and cause customers to abandon their search. Amasty Layered Navigation and Mageplaza Layered Navigation are designed as effective solutions to address this problem, offering the following key benefits.
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Compatible with Hyva theme (view demo)
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Drive sales growth by streamlining product search
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Boost SERPs with faster loading and enhanced SEO
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Make shopping easier for customers with “Shop By Brand”
Compatible with:
Community: 2.3.* - 2.4.7
Enterprise: 2.3.* - 2.4.7
Free 1 year support & updates
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Limitations
Limit the number of attributes displayed at once that impact user experience for products with many variations.
Lack of advanced features such as price range filtering, custom attribute filtering, and related product suggestions
Equipped with a default interface that may not align with the store's overall design, making customization difficult
Negatively impact page load speed when the store has too many products and a large number of attributes
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Solutions
Enable the display of more attributes, allowing for customization of quantity and position
Provide advanced features to help customers find products more accurately
Offer numerous options to customize the interface, colors, layout, and more to match the brand
Employ optimization techniques, such as Ajax page-loading and advanced SEO, to speed up page load times
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Key Features of Magento 2 Layered Navigation Extensions

Similar features of Amasty and Mageplaza extensions

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Multi-value filter selection
Customers can select multiple product attribute values simultaneously, such as choosing both blue and red colors or S and M sizes.
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Advanced filter options
This extension by Amasty and Mageplaza both provide provides advanced filters, including sorting by ratings, new arrivals, sales, or in-stock products.
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Different filter display modes
You can choose from various display modes—labels, images, images with labels, or text swatches—based on the specific filter requirements.
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Compact filter display
Admins can limit the number of filter choices shown for long lists at first. To see all options, customers just need to click “Show More”.
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Vertical and horizontal navigation
Filters can be displayed in either a vertical or horizontal menu layout, offering flexibility in design.
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Out-of-stock display
You can choose whether to show or hide out-of-stock products on the filtered results page.
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Shop by brand
It allows customers to filter products by brand name on both category pages or a separate page.
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SEO features
The two extensions supports SEO-friendly URLs, meta titles, keywords, and descriptions.
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UX features
These two modules also provides an AJAX loading page, scroll to the top after filtering, product count, and infinite scroll.

Unique Features of Amasty vs. Mageplaza Layered Navigation

Amasty Layered Navigation vs. Mageplaza Layered Navigation
In addition to the basic features mentioned earlier, Amasty Layered Navigation offers advanced features that are not included in Mageplaza's module.
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Dependent filters
You can set up dependencies between filters so that a dependent filter only appears when a user selects a value from the main filter.
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Attribute mapping
For example, by grouping all shades of blue, you can display results for a blue sweatshirt that includes every relevant option.
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Along with the features mentioned above, Mageplaza's extension includes advanced functionalities that Amasty's module does not offer.
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Searching product attributes by keywords
Mageplaza Layered Navigation includes a Quick Lookup feature, providing a search box for each attribute where customers can enter keywords to get instant results. You can easily enable or disable the search bar. Amasty does not support this feature.
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6 types of slider
While Amasty offers 5 different price slider options, Mageplaza goes one step further by providing 6 distinct styles: default, flat UI, HTML 5, modern, nice white, and simple dark. This expanded selection allows for a more varied customer experience and gives e-commerce stores a wider range of visual options to choose from.
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CSS customization for slider
The slider's appearance is highly customizable with CSS, a feature that is not available in Amasty's module. You have full control over colors, fonts, dimensions, and layout.
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Displaying rating filters as sliders
While Amasty's module only allows rating filters to be displayed as a list, Mageplaza's extension offers both slider and list options.
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Adjusting filter items
You can enable/disable expanding and collapsing filter items on all desktop and mobile devices, while Amasty's module does not support adjusting filter item displays across different devices.
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Subcategory slider
This setting lets you control whether the Subcategory Slider plays automatically or not.

Key features comparisons: Amasty Layered Navigation vs Mageplaza Layered Navigation

Main Features Amasty (Premium) Mageplaza (Ultimate)
Multi-value filter selection icon icon
Searching categories by keywords icon icon
Search box & tooltip to any filter icon icon
Advanced filter options (sorting by ratings, new arrivals, sales, or in-stock products). icon icon
Advanced Ajax Search icon icon
Different filter display modes icon icon
Compact filter display icon icon
Shop by brand icon icon
6 types of price slider icon icon
CSS customization for slider icon icon
Displaying rating filter as sliders icon icon
Subcategory slider icon icon
Dependent filters icon icon
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Adjusting filter items on all devices icon icon
Vertical and horizontal navigation icon icon
Out-of-stock display icon icon
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Pricing
  • CE: $399
  • EE: $699
  • Cloud: $999
  • CE: $399
  • EE/Cloud: $599

Which option is better for you?

Although both Amasty and Mageplaza ‘s plugins provide exceptional layered navigation solutions, Mageplaza’s module distinguishes itself with its more diverse and advanced custom filter options, enabling you to create the most user-friendly product pages.
While Mageplaza offers the standard product filtering features, it sets itself apart with 6 customizable slider types, rating filter sliders, and subcategory sliders. Its ability to adjust filters for different devices optimizes SEO and enhances the overall shopping experience.
Choose Mageplaza to simplify your checkout and maximize your store's revenue!

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Key Release Notes View all release notes

  • v4.5.9 (Magento v2.4.x)

    25 November 2024

    Ultimate:
    New Update: Mageplaza has upgraded the Search Module to version v4.3.1, adding new features and improving performance for faster, more efficient indexing.
  • v4.5.8 (Magento v2.4.x)

    09 October 2024

    Ultimate:
    Compatibility: Shopbybrand in Pack: Now works well with Hyva theme
  • v4.5.7 (Magento v2.4.x)

    26 September 2024

    Ultimate:
    New Update: Update Product Finder v4.1.0
  • v4.5.5 (Magento v2.4.x)

    22 July 2024

    Professional:
    Compatibility: Now works well with Hyva theme
    New Update: Search-Optimized URL
    Ultimate:
    Compatibility: Now works well with Hyva theme
    New Update: Product Finder
    New Update: Shop By Brand
  • v4.5.0 (Magento v2.4.x)

    05 January 2024

    New Feature: The navigation bar was added
    [Pro and Ultimate] New Feature: A redivide config was added
    [Pro and Ultimate] New Feature: A config path was added
    [Pro] Enhanced Functionality A set default value to some config was added
    [Ultimate] Enhanced Functionality: Navigation Feature and Sticky Sidebar was added
    [Ultimate] Enhanced Functionality: The collapse of the navigation bar was added

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Frequently Asked Questions

Mageplaza surpasses Amasty by offering 6 distinct slider styles (vs. Amasty's 5), enabling CSS customization for enhanced visual control. Unlike Amasty, Mageplaza provides both slider and list options for rating filters. Furthermore, Mageplaza allows for device-specific filter adjustments, optimizing SEO, and enhancing the user experience.

This extension by Mageplaza helps create SEO-friendly URLs, optimizes title tags and meta descriptions for each product page, and enhances the user experience by allowing customers to filter products quickly and accurately. Additionally, the module supports Ajax page-loading, a web development technique that allows for partial page updates without a full page reload. As a result, search engines can easily index your content, increasing your click-through rate and improving your website's ranking on search engine results pages.

Yes, you have extensive customization options:

  • Attribute Selection: Choose which attributes to display as filters.
  • Filter Types: Select different filter types like dropdown, slider, swatches, etc.
  • Display Options: Customize how filters are displayed, including their order, layout, and appearance.
  • Filtering Logic: Control how filters interact with each other.

The "Shop By Brand" feature in Mageplaza's Layered Navigation allows customers to easily filter products based on brand. When this feature is activated, a "Brand" filter will appear alongside other filters such as price, color, and size.

Absolutely! The Layered Navigation feature of Mageplaza allows customers to select multiple attributes at once to filter products. This makes the search process more flexible and accurate.

Absolutely. You can choose to hide it completely, move it to the bottom of the attributes list, or still display it normally but make it grayed out and not allow customers to select it. This is very easy to do on the back end.

Definitely. The quantity of products remaining in stock for each category will be displayed right next to the attribute name. You can also choose to hide this quantity depending on your business goals.

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