Help an Newb

[Jason4108]

This may seem like a stupid question, but I'm a stupid person. I've searched the wikki and the forums and haven't found anything about how to add/remove blocks. Please help.

[Guest]

What do you mean "blocks"? What blocks?

 

Please be as specific as you can.

[241]

By blocks do you mean boxes

[Jason4108]

the side boxes with the tell a friend, language, and etc. I thought they were called blocks I could be wrong though.

[Guest]

They are boxes. The boxes themselves are located in catalog/includes/boxes/ and the code that calls them is in the files catalog/includes/column_left.php and catalog/includes/column_right.php.

 

Boxes can be removed from display simply by rem'ing out the code that calls them in column_right or column_left.php. The column_left and column_right.php files are called by the php files in catalog/ such as index.php and product_info.php etc etc.

 

You could create custom column_whatever.php files and call them instead of left and right, as you see fit, or you could simply revise the left and right columns, which is the easier solution.

 

Rem out what you don't (think you) want, rather than deleting code, so that the code can be restored easily if needed.

[241]

go to catalog/includes/column_left.php or catalog/includes/column_right.php and change the code from for example

require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'reviews.php');

to

//require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'reviews.php');

[Jason4108]

thanks