How to remove My Cart and Checkout links in Magento?

Question

I am using Magento 1.4 and I want to remove the "Checkout" and "My Cart" links in the top navigation menu. I know that I need to change something in the layout file, but I'm not sure which one. I searched for "checkout" and "addLink" but did not find anything related to these two links.

Answer 1

To change this in a custom package / theme, copy the checkout.xml layout file from $MAGENTO/app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/checkout.xml to $MAGENTO/app/design/$PACKAGE/$THEME/layout/checkout.xml

Then find the following lines:

• <action method="addCartLink"></action>
• <action method="addCheckoutLink"></action>

in this file.

Then just comment on these lines (put <!-- at the beginning of each line and put --> at the end of each line).

In terms of CSS selectors, this would be: layout > default > referance[name='top.links'] > block > action

Answer 2

The best way is not to touch the main layout files, instead it is best to create your own theme with only one local.xml layout file, as described here. To remove links from the top menu, you need to add these lines to the local.xml file:

  <default>
     <reference name = "top.links">
         <remove name = "checkout_cart_link" />
     </reference>
 </default>

I believe that this will remove the statement and links to my links in the top menu. If this does not work, try changing top.links to topLinks , as in page.xml it is declared as = "topLinks"

  <reference name = "topLinks">
         <remove name = "checkout_cart_link" />
     </reference>

Answer 3

To make the BOTH link Checkout and Top Cart, you need to put them in <default> </default> your local.xml in the layout folder ( app/design/frontend/THEME/THEMENAME/layout/ )

 // Checkout Link <reference name="topLinks"> <remove name="checkout_cart_link" /> </reference> // Top Cart Link <reference name="header"> <action method="unsetChild"><alias>topCart</alias></action> </reference>