But what if you don't want to use all of those items on a page? Sure, you could disable features, but what if you only want to hide features on a specific page?
Say, for example, you want to create a homepage using the 2-columns-left layout. Having the sidebar navigation available on your homepage could be a great way to increase accessibility on your site, but the Shopping Cart and other features may not be appropriate for the home page.
The best solution for a scenario like this is to remove unwanted blocks from a specific page using Layout Update XML.
For this example you would set up your categories and your homepage as usual, and then to remove the extra sidebar blocks on the homepage, go to edit your homepage’s CMS page, and under Layout Update XML, create the appropriate remove tags, as in this example:
<reference name="left"> <remove name="cart_sidebar"></remove> <remove name="catalog.compare.sidebar"></remove> <remove name="sale.reorder.sidebar"></remove> </reference>This method can be used on CMS pages, categories, product pages - just about anywhere on your site!
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