Website footers may not be the place with great design or content, but its the place where the visitors look for the details. And the Magento 2 store owners cannot afford to miss any vital details or links in the footer.
However, the default Magento 2 footer is not up to the mark. The store owners have to modify the footer in order to deliver all the required information and the links.
Fortunately, Magento 2 is a flexible CMS that allows editing the footer.
The programmatic method to add and edit footer links in Magento 2 makes it easy for the admin to customize the footer.
Method to Add and Edit Footer Links in Magento 2:
1. Create module.xml file at app/code/Vendor/Extension/etc/ directory
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Module/etc/module.xsd">
<module name="Vendor_Extension" setup_version="1.0.0"></module>
</config>
2. Create registration.php file at app/code/Vendor/Extension directory
<?php
\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register(
\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::MODULE,
'Vendor_Extension',
__DIR__
);
To remove the Privacy and Cookie Policy link from the footer:
Create default.xml file at app/code/Vendor/Extension/view/frontend/layout directory
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
<body>
<referenceBlock name="privacy-policy-link" remove="true"/>
</body>
</page>
To add new footer link:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
<body>
<referenceBlock name="footer_links">
<block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link\Current" name="custom-footer-link">
<arguments>
<argument name="label" xsi:type="string">Customer LInk</argument>
<argument name="path" xsi:type="string">custom/extension/index/</argument>
</arguments>
</block>
</referenceBlock>
</body>
</page>
That’s it.
You may also love to read our another blog post on how to remove default footer links in Magento 2.
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