Magento 1.x. How to Disable Compare Products Feature

Firstly, open list.phtml file under the app/design/frontend/default/themeXXX/template/catalog/product folder. In order to do this, you can use your FTP client or FileManager in your Hosting Control panel.

The next step is to disable “Add to compare” option for the product list view and/or product grid view.
Then you need to delete the following code:

	<?php if($_compareUrl=$this-getAddToCompareUrl($_product)): ?>
	<li><span class="separator">\|</span>
	<a title="<?php echo $this->__('Add to Compare') ?> " href="<?php echo $_compareUrl ?>" rel="tooltip" class="link-compare "><?php echo $this->__('Add toCompare') ?></a></li>
	<?php endif; ?>

view raw .phtml hosted with

by GitHub

You can use CTRL+F to simplify the search process.

In order to disable the “Add To Compare” option for the product page, you should copy addto.phtml file from the app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/view folder to the app/design/frontend/default/themeXXX/template/catalog/product/view folder and delete the next code:

	<?php
	$_compareUrl = $this->helper('catalog/product_compare')->getAddUrl($_product);
	?>
	<?php if($_compareUrl) : ?>
	<li><span class="separator">\|</span> <a href="<?php echo $_compareUrl ?>" class="link-compare"><?php echo $this->__('Add to Compare') ?></a></li>-->

view raw .phtml hosted with

by GitHub

Then, if you want to disable “Add To Compare” for the sidebar, you need to edit catalog.xml file stored in the app/design/frontend/default/themeXXX/layout folder and delete the following code:

<block type="catalog/product_compare_sidebar" after="cart_sidebar" name="catalog.compare.sidebar" template="catalog/product/compare/sidebar.phtml"/>

view raw .xml hosted with

by GitHub

Save your changes and upload the files to your server.
Note, you may need to clean Magento cache.
Finally, open your website and refresh the page by pressing the CTRL+F5 key combination.