Magento – Magento 1.9 Footer Links

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I am trying to edit out the Quick Links and other Footer links so that I can install some widgets in that area that I created with Static Blocks. I cannot find where the links are located. I have tried all the pages that were default installations, same with Static blocks. I cannot find the links in the XML in the footer file.

I am a PHP developer, but brand new to Magento. It's driving me nuts that I cannot find these links and why my widget content aren't being added to the Footer section. Can someone please help? Every piece of Footer Links content I found on the Internet refers to Magento 1.7, which has a Footer Links page installed. Magento 1.9 doesn't have a page like that.

I loaded Magento 1.9 on my computer using XAMPP.

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Best Answer

I've answered a similar question before, here:

Changing the footer in magento theme

Just so this is a proper answer though, the footer for the 1.9 RWD theme is declared in app/design/frontend/rwd/default/layout/page.xml, the blocks are named footer_links and footer_links2.

You can get rid of them entirely by creating a local.xml (best practice as opposed to just editing page.xml) file in the layout folder and putting this in it:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <default>
        <reference name="footer">
            <remove name="footer_links"/>
            <remove name="footer_links2"/>
        </reference>
    </default>
</layout>

Inside that reference node you can also add your own blocks or widgets. Welcome to the world of Magento!

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