Directly go to Product Detail page on click of a category in the nav bar

In my store, one of the category has only one product. Is it possible to take the user directly to the product开发者_开发技巧 detail page of this one product whenever they click this category in the nav bar?

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Yes this can be done by using the URL Rewrite Management option in Magento Admin.

In Magento Admin:

1. Select from menu bar Catalog > URL Rewrite Management.
2. Click on the Add URLRewrite button.
3. Select the category you want to redirect from.
4. Make a note of the ID Path (e.g.: category/10) and the Request Path (e.g.: flowerpots.html)
5. Repeat steps 1 & 2, but this time select Custom from the Create Urlrewrite dropdown box.

6. Enter the values in each field:

   • ID Path (from step 4)
   • Request Path (from step 4)
   • Target Path - enter path of your product (or the page you want to redirect to).
     • example 1: for product url www.myswebsite.co.uk/flowers.html enter flowers.html.
     • example 2: for product url www.myswebsite.co.uk/sale/garden/flowers.html enter sale/garden/flowers.html.

7. Select Redirect Permanent (301) from the Redirect dropdown.

8. Save.

Now when the category is clicked on on your website it will re-direct to the product.

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This can be done programmatically by adding code to the page template in your theme folder which is called for showing the categories. Check full solution here - http://www.codeboss.in/web-funda/2015/01/30/magento-auto-redirect-to-product-details-page-if-category-have-only-one-product/

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Follow the Steps:

1. Open the page template which is assigned to the category pages. You will find it under “template/page/” folder in your theme directory. For example let us assume the page is 1column.phtml (for the One column layout).

2. Just after the lines

/** * Template for Mage_Page_Block_Html */

3. Add the following code :

<?php 
$product = Mage::registry('current_product');
if($product == ''){
$category = Mage::registry('current_category');
if(is_object($category)){
$catLoaded = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category->getEntityId());
 $collection = $catLoaded->getProductCollection();
$collection->addAttributeToSelect('*');
if(count($collection) == 1){
foreach($collection as $product){
 $productUrl = $product->getProductUrl();
 header("location:$productUrl");
 exit;
  }
 }
 }
} 
?>