Comments on: Removing Product Comparison in Magento

By: jurgen

jurgen — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:06:30 +0000

Some of it did work but for it to disappear from the product pages I had to set the .link-compare (line 433) in styles.css to display:none, atleast it’s visually gone now.

By: eddie

eddie — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:46:35 +0000

Free extension to remove comparison feature:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/niro/extension/6455/et_advancedcompare

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:29:11 +0000

Not that hard. The “or” is in the product view.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:50:05 +0000

OK – we finally got rid of it – despite having a custom template the last line above applied to our core files, not the custom template files. Now we have a floating “OR” we don’t want… where the option used to be Add to Cart -OR- Add to Compare – any ideas where that OR is located ? if we grep OR that gets us nowhere. LOL.. its little crap like this that costs us a fortune. Come on Magento !

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:39:49 +0000

I want to know who in the world was the idiot who put the compare function in, why its default is on, and why its so freaking hard to disable. I have spent an hour going though all the files here and the POS still shows up on my products page… Magento is a great program, but dear GOD why the stupid compare feature cannot be disabled by the admin panel is beyond me.

By: bartman

bartman — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:40:02 +0000

Thanks so much. worked perfectly for 1.5.1.0

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:55:52 +0000

@mike

That’s just terrible SEO for many reasons.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:52:20 +0000

/* Removing Product Comparison w. css */
.block-compare, .link-compare {display:none;}

By: John

John — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:13:22 +0000

dear god why is something like this so difficult? Wishlist has an on / off switch in admin, why can’t this?

By: Allan Nielsen

Allan Nielsen — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:26:40 +0000

Awesome guide!! – By any chance, do you know the procedures for Magetnto1.4.2?… I tried following your guide, but file locations doesn’t match

By: Dekbedovertrekken

Dekbedovertrekken — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:47:21 +0000

Thank you for this guide. In my webshop the addto.phtml file was not located in the above location but in app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/view

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:36:52 +0000

John, that was great! Much easier. Thanks so much for posting that link.

By: John

John — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:43:17 +0000

I spent hours finding and deleting code trying to get “add to compare” off my website. Then I found this info:

http://www.aschroder.com/2009/07/removing-the-compare-function-in-magento-the-easy-way/

It was really easy. Just follow the directions and your “add to compare” should not be visible on the website.

By: Elijah

Elijah — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:22:04 +0000

Thanks! works very well.

I hope there will be future updates to magento to have this added to the admin backend as an option.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:04:16 +0000

It works! I am using 1.3.2.4. Looks complicated at first but its easier then the rest.

By: Stan

Stan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:59:19 +0000

Really nice – thanks for all your support and you taking the time to find all these files to edit. Great forum.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:31:21 +0000

Why you want disable product comparision?

By: Andre Costa

Andre Costa — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:13:13 +0000

Thanks!!!
It worked! =)

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:15:43 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial and additional comments guys – saved me a bunch of time compared to the last time I tried to do the same.

By: TB

TB — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:30:00 +0000

just a note to anyone looking to fully remove the add to compare functionality…

you will need to edit crosssell.phtml to remove the add to compare link as well

app\design\frontend\default\default\template\checkout\cart