How can you remove this link from local.xml?

All things I have tested from your scripts still work on 1.6.

Thanks for sharing!

Hope that helps.

You forgot to close a comment in your main piece of code.
(almost at the end at : By default, Magento sets a static footer block. Find it in the admin under CMS – Static Blocks.

I would very much like to know if it is easy to use different footers for different STORE VIEWS.
In that case I could easily link the footers to different pages (in different languages).

Thanks in advance…

1. From the admin, System > Configuration > (bottom left sidebar) Developer, change configuration scope to your store (it’s the drop down at the top of the left sidebar), and turn on translate inline for frontend.

1a. In “Developer Client Restrictions”, above Translate inline, you can restrict the edits to only your IP (highly recommended if you’re editing a live site!)

2. After you save, go to your homepage and hover over “Contact Us”.

3. It should be outlined in red and a little book should appear on hover. Click the book and change “Contact Us” to “contact”.

4. Don’t forget to go back to you Configuration and turn it off when you’re finished.

For separators, we’ll usually style the links in css with {display:block; border-left:1px solid #000} or make a background image for the separators: {background:url(path/to/image.png) 100% 0 no-repeat}. Then for the last link you will need to add a “last” class and style it without the border or background image. Say you added the last link:

<reference name="footer_links">
    <action method="addLink" translate="label title">
        <label>Last Link Label</label>
        <url>last-link-url</url>  <!-- can use a full url if not using urlParams below -->
        <title>Last Link Title</title>
        <prepare>true</prepare> <!-- set true if adding base url param -->
        <urlParams helper="core/url/getHomeUrl"/> <!-- base url - thanks @Russ! -->
        <position>200</position>
        <liParams/>
        <aParams>class="last"</aParams>
        <beforeText>|</beforeText>
        <afterText></afterText>
    </action>
</reference>

See how I also added the “|” in the <beforeText> tag? That’s another way to add a separator.

How can I change “Contact Us” to just “contact” using the same approach?

Thanks,

Peter.

app/etc/modules/Dboxx_Contacts.xml

true
local

app/code/local/Dboxx/Contacts/etc/config.xml

0.1.0

Dboxx_Contacts_Helper

app/code/local/Dboxx/Contacts/Helper/Data.php

and in local.xml trying to remove it with

cms_footer_links

thanks for the walkthrough

class Namespace_Module_Helper_Data extends Mage_Core_Helper_Abstract
{
    public function getContactsUrl() {
        return Mage::getBaseUrl() . 'contacts/';
    }
}

also, did you create a config.xml file in app/code/Namespace/Module/etc/ ? It would look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Namespace_Module>
            <version>1.0.1</version>
        </Namespace_Module>
    </modules>
 
    <global>
        <helpers>
            <module>
                <class>Namespace_Module_Helper</class>
            </module>
        </helpers>
    </global>
</config>

The <module> tag inside helpers is the lowercase name of your custom module.

I tried setting up a custom module to remove the contacts link by creating the xml fil with my Namespace_Module.xml, saving it in etc/modules/ and then creating the directory structure under code/local with my Namespace/Module/Helper/Data.php and used the above code you provided and then tried to remove the contacts link by URL helper, and it doesn’t work.

Anything I’m missing in that sequence for creating the custom module? In Config > Advanced >Advanced I see my module in the list, but the function isn’t working.

Thanks

footer_links