Magento 2 Admin – How to Remove Block Using Custom Layout Update XML

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I want to remove a block on specific CMS pages and categories that can be accessed via the admin – rather than trying to figure out handles that will cover all of the pages I want to modify.

I want to remove the sidebar block on the page, however it will only accept the <referenceContainer>... not <referenceBlock name="sidebar" remove="true"/>

Any ideas? I'm sure I have done this before.

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Strangely, I encountered the same challenge this week. I assume that this reported issue matches your problem: https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/2247

This is my solution and it is terrible, but it does the trick. Create a new container, move your block(s) into that container, remove the new container.

<container name="bin" htmlTag="div" />
<move element="block.to.remove" destination="bin" />
<referenceContainer name="bin" remove="true" />

I would definitely like to see this issue fixed - I believe it to be a bug though the M2 devs seem to have dismissed it ('works as intended').

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<update handle="foo_cat_a" /> might not work because it is likely being parsed before the handle (which typically adds the product.info block handle) is being parsed.

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You need to change

<reference name="content">
    <block type="catalog/product_view">
        <block type="cms/block" name="product.info.custom" as="product_custom">
            <action method="setBlockId">
                <block_id>product_custom2</block_id>
            </action>
        </block>
    </block>
</reference>

<reference name="product.info">
   <!--- <block type="catalog/product_view"> --><!-- remove from here -->
        <block type="cms/block" name="product.info.custom" as="product_custom">
            <action method="setBlockId">
                <block_id>product_custom2</block_id>
            </action>
        </block>
    <!-- </block> --> <!-- remove from here -->
</reference>

According to magento a block children blocks has been update using reference tag of parent block

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