How can I hide the shopping cart icon on a new site?

[thrilly]

Hi. I'm creating a new site for a client who isn't yet ready to add products, and therefore the shopping cart isn't necessary. I'm currently creating the site using the free theme Studio. As I understand, it's not possible to technically disable the shopping cart / checkout itself, but I would like to at least hide the cart icon in the header to prevent users directly accessing this page. I was advised there may be a way to do this with some code, if anyone is able to help?

Thank you.

[AvadaCommerce]

Hi @thrilly ,

Please share your store URL and if your store is password protected then please provide password too.
You can take a picture of the place you want to edit.

So that we can help you.

[roaring]

Not much of a coder, but how I used to do it was going into the theme settings and corresponding the color of the logo to the background color, it was still present however not visible, but it should be able to be done with code.

[chcsep · Accepted solution]

In Shopify Admin, go to Online Store > Themes > Actions > Edit code

Then in the selector on the left, scroll down to the "Sections" section and click "header.liquid"

You'll have to figure out where the link is that you want to disable, which you can do by commenting it out <!-- this is commented out code in HTML -->

In a separate tab, go to your store page front end, right click on the shopping cart icon, and click "Inspect Element". This should give you an idea of where to find the icon within your HTML code.

[thrilly]

@chcsep Thank you, that worked. I wasn't sure what to do with <!-- this is commented out code in HTML --> but I found the necessary code in "header.liquid" and deleted it.

For anyone wanting to do the same thing using the same theme (and if you've not already altered the code), the code I deleted was this:

[GrzlyRzly]

Finally!!! Thank you for showing the exact text needed. This greatly helped me as I am using the Craft theme.

[DreamCrusher]

Thank you SO much, I have been testing all these solutions people have listed and none of them have been working for the Ride theme. 

I located it at: Sections > header.liquid > line 722-739

[Zenaba]

I located it at: Sections > header.liquid > line 320~340

{by the way,I suppose that you must long header title...}🤣

[Zenaba]

Very useful， thank you very much.

[ritadag]

thank you!!!!!!!! super super helpful!!!!

I was able to successfully hide the icon (I'm using the theme Refresh)

[Neil23]

Thanks for sharing the screen shot.. great help!

[d8]

Hello! It's amazing how all of you understood exactly what to do because I am very lost and after locating "header.liqud" cannot figure out where the link is that I want to disable and I don't understand what it means "by commenting it out". The Shopify theme I am using is IMPACT 2.0.

If someone could walk me through what to do next, I would be very grateful. Thanks! 

[Shiiraz]

Hi @thrilly , someone told me that free themes are unreliable and can crash if thousand of users come at once. I am new to shopify and I need some guidance, can we connect on social media as well for that?