Magento 2. How to Remove the INFORMATION Footer Block?

In this tutorial we are going to show how to remove the “Information” block (see the image below) from the footer section of your Magento 2 website.

In case your Magento store has different footer layouts and you want to remove the “Information” block from a certain layout, do the following:

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information footer block

The method will be demonstrated on the Magetique template which has 5 different footer layouts.
We will remove the “Information” block from the Footer Layout 1.

1. So that, open the footer_layout_1.xml file you can find in the app/design/frontend/TemplateMonster/theme007/TemplateMonster_LayoutSwitcher/layout folder.

  • 007 – is Magetique theme number

2. Add the following code before the </body> tag:

3. Save the file changes and switch to your Magento store Dashboard.

4. Go to Content > Blocks section.

5. You’ll see the CMS Static Block Manager page.

6. Then disable the Footer column content 1 block:

  • Go to the Content > Blocks section.

Content > Blocks section

  • Open the CMS Static Block settings.

CMS Static Block settings

  • Set Enable Block to “No”.

Enable Block to “No”

  • Click the Save Block button.

Save Block button

7. Important: The final step is to clear Magento cache and refresh the store web-page in a browser .

Result (the “Information” block is removed):

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