I have a custom child theme, the homepage layout is 2columns-left. I want to add a categories sidebar on the left, but I cannot get it to work.
I have a sidebar template located at:
app/design/frontend/../default/Magento_Catalog/templates/navigation/left.phtml
I made changed to default.xml
app/design/frontend/.../default/Magento_Catalog/view/frontend/layout/default.xml
It looks like this:
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd" layout="2columns-left">
<body>
<referenceContainer name="header-wrapper">
<container name="compare-link-wrapper" label="Compare Link Wrapper" as="compare-link-wrapper" after="top.search" htmlTag="ul" htmlClass="compare wrapper">
<block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="catalog.compare.link" before="-" template="Magento_Catalog::product/compare/link.phtml">
<arguments>
<argument name="jsLayout" xsi:type="array">
<item name="components" xsi:type="array">
<item name="compareProducts" xsi:type="array">
<item name="component" xsi:type="string">Magento_Catalog/js/view/compare-products</item>
</item>
</item>
</argument>
</arguments>
</block>
</container>
</referenceContainer>
<referenceContainer name="sidebar.additional">
<block class="Magento\Catalog\Block\Navigation" name="catalog.leftnav" before="-" template="navigation/left.phtml"/>
</referenceContainer>
</body>
</page>
I cannot get the sidebar to show up on the homepage. Am I adding it to the wrong file or doing something else wrong? I have cleared the cache, deployed static content etc with no luck. I am not getting any errors.
