You can easily disable magento 2 reviews and ratings functionality directly in the magento backend. Go to Stores > Settings > Configuration. Open the Catalog tab and choose the Catalog option. Navigate to the Product Reviews section and set No in the Enabled field. Save the changes. If you are running a version were you do not have that option then remove[…]
Read moreUse custom javascript The best solution to add custom javascript to all pages of your website is to create a javascript module and load it via requireJS. This can be done by creating a requirejs-config.js file in your theme folder with the following content: This file tells requireJS to load a custom.js file located in folder Theme_Vendor/Theme_Name/web/js. Include in that[…]
Read moreI had a customer that wanted to remove the minicart dropdown and take the visitor directly to the cart page when clicking the cart icon. This can be implemented by overriding the dropdown javascript module via mixin. First create a requirejs-config.js under your theme folder. You can add it inside the Magento_Checkout folder. So, create file Theme_Folder/Theme_Name/Magento_Checkout/requirejs-config.js with the following[…]
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If you want to make the phone number a mandatory field in the contact page you will need to override the form.phtml template file. Copy the form.phtml template file used for your current contact form to the folder Magento_Contact/templates inside your theme’s folder. If your current theme does not have that template file it is inheriting from Magento luma or[…]
Read moreThe best way to achieve this is by adding the following lines to the category pages layout file catalog_category_view.xml. This file can be under the Magento_Catalog\layout folder inside your theme folder. These instructions call the setDefaultDirection method in class Toolbar, and pass the value desc or asc to the argument dir. This sets the default sort direction to descending or[…]
Read moreThe best way to implement the order change on the tabs that are displayed on magento’s product page is by extending the product page layout and changing the sort_order attribute for the tab block you want to move. In your theme’s folder (design/frontend/Theme_Vendor/Theme_Name) add (or append to) the file catalog_product_view.xml under the folder Magento_Catalog/layout. Is you already have that file[…]
Read moreMagento offers the possibility of running in one of 3 different modes: default, developer and production. Each of these was design to fit a specific scenario and purpose. Default more The default mode is the default :). If you just installed magento it will be running in this mode. Default mode is a sort of hybrid mode between developer and[…]
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It is frequent to have requests from customers wanting to place blocks in totally different places in desktop and mobile. This type of requests do not fit the usual block placement using magento’s layout xml files. So, how can this be solved? #1 Duplicate the block and hide one when on mobile/desktop using CSS rules This is really not the[…]
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If you want to show the totals section when you first go to the default checkout in your magento 2 website you need to extend the abstract-total object defined in the Magento_Checkout/js/view/summary/abstract-total.js file. The function isFullMode needs to be replaced by a custom function that avoids not showing the total section in the shipping step. Basically the last statement on[…]
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Recently I had a request from a customer asking to randomize the product listing in all the categories. The goal was to give the illusion of “freshness” or frequent changes in the categories. To achieve this the product collection created when a category is called needed to be sorted in a random order. I created an extension to override the[…]
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