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Way to change “My Account” “Checkout” etc, links?

andrewmaier Total Posts: 22 Joined: 2008-01-13 Ignore user	Any way to change the actual text that links to these abilities and/or delete some of them? I just wants three links in the top right: “Help” “Account” “Cart” If nothing so obvious, I can always make my own block that creates them my way.... -A
	Posted: January 28 2008 \| top

ohminu Total Posts: 173 Joined: 2007-08-07 Portland, OR Ignore user	Hello andrewmaier. You can do this very easily through locale file. The locale file for English is located in app/design/frontend/your_interface/your_theme/locale/en_US/translate.csv and is formatted in the following way: 1. Each SINGLE line represents a translation, therefore before and after each translation, you need an enter. 2. Each SINGLE line of translation is formatted this way: “Base Magento text”, “Your override of Magento text” So, if the link you want to change in the header is “My Cart” to “Cart”, just enter the following text all in a dedicated SINGLE line: `"My Cart", "Cart"` As to having the list of links you mentioned, first you will need to consolidate the links to one, and there’s already been a thread about this here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/1212/
	Posted: January 28 2008 \| top \| # 1

NueBe Total Posts: 65 Joined: 2007-09-30 Tres Cantos - Madrid - Spain Ignore user	dont delete, only define css like display:none in the tag you need. or use visibility:hidden depends you want
	Posted: January 28 2008 \| top \| # 2

finch8243 Total Posts: 64 Joined: 2007-08-31 Ignore user	@ohminu—this works for me some of the time, not all of the time. For example, I can edit my translate.csv like so: `"You have no items in your shopping cart.","You have nothing in your shopping cart."` And it works fine. However, this does not work: `"Be the first to review this product","You like this?"` This second example only works if I go into the original Mage_Review.csv and delete out this line: `"Be the first to review this product","Be the first to review this product"` Obviously, this isn’t a good solution as every time you guys upgrade, I’d have to go back into the original Mage_*.csv files and delete out all relevant language lines. I guess I’ll submit this as a bug, unless I’m doing something wrong here.
	Posted: June 17 2008 \| top \| # 3

finch8243 Total Posts: 64 Joined: 2007-08-31 Ignore user	Looks like others have noticed this—it’s already in the bug system: http://www.magentocommerce.com/bug-tracking/issue?issue=1982
	Posted: June 17 2008 \| top \| # 4

RubinC Total Posts: 11 Joined: 2008-10-11 Ignore user	ohminu - 27 January 2008 10:56 PM Hello andrewmaier. You can do this very easily through locale file. The locale file for English is located in app/design/frontend/your_interface/your_theme/locale/en_US/translate.csv and is formatted in the following way: 1. Each SINGLE line represents a translation, therefore before and after each translation, you need an enter. 2. Each SINGLE line of translation is formatted this way: “Base Magento text”, “Your override of Magento text” So, if the link you want to change in the header is “My Cart” to “Cart”, just enter the following text all in a dedicated SINGLE line: `"My Cart", "Cart"` As to having the list of links you mentioned, first you will need to consolidate the links to one, and there’s already been a thread about this here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/1212/ Thats works only when the cart is empty. And is there a way to remove the word items from the My Cart (x Items) ==> View Cart (x)?
	Posted: October 20 2008 \| top \| # 5

Themeio Total Posts: 226 Joined: 2008-03-20 Long Beach, CA Ignore user	You can do this but you’ll have to edit the core files. Go to app > code > core > Mage > Checkout > Block > Links.php Notice around lines 47, that’s where you can remove the (# items) or change the text “My Cart” to whatever you want. `$text = $this->__('My Cart (%s item)', $count); } elseif( $count > 0 ) { $text = $this->__('My Cart (%s items)', $count); } else { $text = $this->__('My Cart');` Signature Designer by day, Ninja by night. My Magento Themes: New! Elegance Theme / Moderate Theme Christmas Edition / Moderate Theme / Urban Extended Theme
	Posted: October 21 2008 \| top \| # 6

thaddeusmt Total Posts: 5 Joined: 2009-02-02 Bozeman, MT Ignore user	@RubinC and Vutha You don’t have to edit the core files, the translation file will let you change/remove the item count (at least with Magento version 1.1.7). For your example, RubinC: My Cart (x Items) ==> View Cart (x) Just enter this in the translation file (both lines): “My Cart (%s item)”, “View Cart ( %s )” “My Cart (%s items)”, “View Cart ( %s )” Signature --------------------------------------------------- http://www.chilipepperdesign.com
	Posted: February 2 2009 \| top \| # 7

keymex Total Posts: 2 Joined: 2009-02-11 Ignore user	Is it me?? I’ve tried every combination I can think of to change the “My Cart” text to “My Bag” and nothing so far has worked. Please, exactly what should I type into column A and what (if anything) should I type in column B of the translate.csv file? Is there something else I need to do? Alternatively, does anyone know in which file these labels are defined?
	Posted: February 17 2009 \| top \| # 8

Cole Geissinger Total Posts: 135 Joined: 2008-12-23 Northern California Ignore user	This method does work. Although the above mentioned from Thaddeusmt will only work if you have items added to your cart. All you have to do is just go to app/design/frontend/your_interface/your_theme/local/en_US/translate.csv Open this up in excel. And just where ever there is a open cell type in My Cart into column “A” and then right next to it in column “B” type in what you want this to turn into. Do the same for My Cart (%s item) & My Cart (%s items) to see this change when items are added to your cart. Signature The internet keeps getting easier for dumb people, but funnier for smart people
	Posted: February 19 2009 \| top \| # 9

doctorlogos Total Posts: 178 Joined: 2008-05-06 Ignore user	Same problem here, I want to keep mi app/locale folders intact, due to next upgrades. So I’m translating my theme this way: app/design/frontend/default/mytheme/locale/translate.csv Some elements, like “My Wishlist” don’t work. And I tried all the posibilities: “Wishlist”,"Favoritos" “%s’s Wishlist","Favoritos de %s” “My Wishlist”,"Favoritos" “My Wishlist (%d item)","Favoritos (%d)” “My Wishlist (%d items)","Favoritos (%d)” And so on. It is a bug?
	Posted: February 21 2009 \| top \| # 10

pp303 Total Posts: 1 Joined: 2009-02-22 Ignore user	first of all.... hello! i am the new one i have nearly the same problem. but not with the translation - rather with escaping the strings in the csv-files. for example i have following string in a core-file: ‘My Wishlist - <a href=\"%s\">%d Item(s)</a>’ neither “My Wishlist - <a href="%s">%d Item(s)</a>","Some German Text” nor ‘My Wishlist - <a href="%s">%d Item(s)</a>’,’Some German Text’ is working in the translation :( some ideas? edit: solved width 2quoutes in a row “My Wishlist - <a href=""%s"">%d Item(s)</a>”
	Posted: February 22 2009 \| top \| # 11

tilzinger Total Posts: 80 Joined: 2007-12-27 Ignore user	This isn’t working for me :/ The only line in my translate.csv is “Checkout","Check Out” The template file I’m expecting to see the change in is /app/design/frontend/mysite/default/template/page/template/links.phtml. Is there a certain method that the string needs to run through for this to work? e.g. __(’my text’) or is this template file immune to such cool text transformations? I’m using version 1.2.1.2
	Posted: March 19 2009 \| top \| # 12

Poltex Total Posts: 13 Joined: 2009-03-02 Ignore user	The translate.csv solutions is working for me. Just for the record. If your locale is set other than en-US. You should create a folder of you locale code, and put the translate.csv in that folder. In my case, my country selection is Indonesia, so I create “id_ID” folder inside the locale folder and put the translate.csv in it. cheers,
	Posted: March 25 2009 \| top \| # 13

tilzinger Total Posts: 80 Joined: 2007-12-27 Ignore user	I had a translate.csv file in /app/design/frontend/mysite/default/locale/en_US, which is apparently being completely ignored. I then created a translate.csv file in /app/local/en_US and it worked. Great documentation.
	Posted: March 26 2009 \| top \| # 14

DougInAtHome Total Posts: 6 Joined: 2008-11-30 Reno, NV USA Ignore user	Just to add to this helpful thread: Examine the files in app/locale/en_US (U.S. English in my case) to see what strings you can translate. I wasn’t getting My Wishlist to translate until I examined Mage_Wishlist.csv and discovered it was looking for %d instead of %s, as My Cart does. For me, putting the translate.csv file in the locale/en_US folder of my theme worked like a charm.
	Posted: 1 month ago \| top \| # 15

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