Magento – disable sidebar cart, tags and newsletter
Magento is a really wonderful commerce package and I look forward to its continued improvement.
The site I’m building does not wish to display the “Newsletter,” “Tags,” or the “My Cart” sidebar. Just as I was getting ready to delve into my templates, I thought better of it and Google’d and sure enough: it’s a lot easier than that.
From your admin panel, simply go to System->Advanced. There you’ll find a wealth of advanced features you can enable or disable. In my case, I disabled:
Mage_Newsletter: this shows the newsletter subscription box. I disabled it because we’re not ready to do anything with it yet.Mage_Tag: the tagging feature is slick, but until we have a strategy to make it useful, I’d just as soon disable it for the time being.
Now, to not display the shopping card sidebar, I had to go somewhere else. From System->Advanced, select Checkout (it’s under the Sales heading). Shopping Cart Sidebar is a Yes/ No drop Down.
The way my brain works, I would have expected the side cart display feature to be in the same place as the Newsletter and Tag features. As I wrote this, I’d (successfully) disabled the cart and went on a hunt to find the newsletter and tag features. By then I’d completely forgotten where the darn switch was for the My Cart sidebar!
And thus we blog.
This is just what I need! I didn’t know all these goodies were hidden in there! =D Thanks so much!