How to Easily Edit the Top Links in Magento
All right, so you have a great ecommerce web design -it’s a little bit different, a little bit none-standard… it’s the little things that count. Little things like.. the top links. My Account, My Cart, Checkout…
But how can you change them? Well, my first thought was the XML files, and then the CSV files – it seems like most things I need these days are those places.
There’s an easier solution!
Log in to your Magento Admin system and go to:
System: Configuration -> Advanced -> Developer -> Translate Inline -> Enable for Frontend : Yes
Once this is enabled, go back to your store and you should see various sections of text outlined in a red dotted line. Everything that has an outline is editable – including the top links.
Hover over the ‘My Cart’ link and click on the little book that appears. Rename it to whatever you like, I’m going to call my ‘My Bag’ and enter that into at least the lower box ‘Link Label’. Hit Submit.
Add a product to your cart and repeat the process. This is where, if you don’t want the number of items to be displayed, you remove the (% ..) from the box.
Add another product to your cart and repeat the process again – this is so when customers have more than one item in their carts it also changes.
You’re done! I cleared the cache’s on my installation and the changes remained so don’t worry about that either. Thanks for reading our Magento blog!
Nice Tip Luci! You’re right, it’s the little details that make all the difference. Standing out from the crowd gets you noticed, you just have to make sure it’s for the right reasons.
thanks a lot it helped me a lot.