Overriding a category view page can be considered as one of the most common tasks for a developer who works on adding functionalities in the category view page in the Magento 2 platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As it is well known that customizing the core\u00a0Magento 2\u00a0functionality is a bad coding practice. Thus, it is advisable to override the file instead of modifying any default Magento file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For instance, you have created a module that adds a button on the category page which prints all the product data in CSV format. In that case, you need to override category view page in Magento 2<\/strong><\/em> to add a well-functioned button on the category view page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Use the below method and add any custom functionality on the category view page as per your requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Use the below code in the catalog_category_view.xml <\/strong>file at app\/code\/Vendor\/Module\/view\/frontend\/layout<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Now you need to create list.phtml<\/strong> at location app\/code\/Vendor\/Module\/view\/frontend\/templates\/product<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s all! Likewise you can also override product view page social meta tags Magento 2<\/a>, as a store owner it will help you to hide social meta tag or dynamically change content of social meta tags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Feel free to share the post with fellow developers via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also refer to the relevant solution to override block, model, and controller in Magento 2<\/a> and override a phtml file using a custom module in Magento 2<\/a> that I posted earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overriding a category view page can be considered as one of the most common tasks for a developer who works on adding functionalities in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18090,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/18090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Method to Override Category View Page in Magento 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<page xmlns:xsi=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/XMLSchema-instance\" layout=\"2columns-left\"\n xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=\"urn:magento:framework:View\/Layout\/etc\/page_configuration.xsd\">\n <body>\n <referenceBlock name=\"category.products.list\">\n <action method=\"setTemplate\">\n <argument name=\"template\" xsi:type=\"string\">Vendor_Module::product\/list.phtml<\/argument>\n <\/action>\n <\/referenceBlock>\n <\/body>\n<\/page><\/pre>\n\n\n\n