Magento 2 – Removing Welcome Message Using XML

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I've started to work on Magento 2 and get my head around it, I'm really familiar with Magento 1 and removing the welcome message was no big deal.

However all I've found the location of the welcome message in the header, but can't seem to find the XML to remove the block from the header.

Is it possible to remove the welcome message with the XML or do I need to simply comment out the switch inside of the header.phtml file?

Best Answer

The welcome message is in html/header.phtml and the block is referenced from this XML file: /vendor/magento/module-theme/view/frontend/layout/default.xml. The template is referenced by the $_template property within the \Magento\Theme\Block\Html\Header block.

If you want to maintain some of the customer welcome functionality, you will need to override the template. However, if you want to remove that, you have two options. First, you can keep the header intact and just hide the welcome message with XML like this (ThemeNamespace/ThemeDirectory/view/frontend/layout/default.xml):

<referenceBlock name="header">
    <arguments>
        <argument name="show_part" xsi:type="string">other</argument>
    </arguments>
</referenceBlock>

If you want to completely remove the header.phtml file altogether, the following XML in the same place should do that:

<referenceBlock name="header" remove="true"/>

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You don't need the line

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('favicon.extra') ?>

in head.phtml.
There is already this line that renders all child blocks

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml() ?>

[EDIT]
If for some reason you want to add the block in a specific place, you can use this:

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('favicon.extra') ?>
<?php this->unsetChild('favicon.extra');?>

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With regards to the XML, that block is called header and is set in

\vendor\magento\module-theme\view\frontend\layout\default.xml

You can remove it via a theme override at

\app\design\frontend\YOURNAME\YOURTHEME\Magento_Theme\layout\default.xml

with the following xml:

<referenceBlock name="header" remove="true"/>

This seems to be the only thing that block is used for, though I do have a slight wariness that it's called "header" rather than "welcome" or something that suggests such a simple purpose. That said, a code search does appear to confirm that this is the only use.

As for "why is it built using xml" - I'd suggest a read of the official documentation - http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/frontend-dev-guide/layouts/layout-overview.html

Dividing the page up into lots of individual XML blocks is a tidier solution than large PHP includes, even if it is fiddler to learn than, for example, the messier, more forgiving, approach of Wordpress.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: I've noticed an oddity in that removing this and the breadcrumbs seems to stop the meta tags working. See: Removing welcome message and breadcrumbs stops the title tag appearing on category page This may mean that overriding the template file is the better approach (or just use css to hide it), depending on the cause.

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