Disable Wishlist & Compare for Magento 2

Completely disable Magento 2's Wishlist and Compare features across the entire frontend — every button, link, sidebar, cart row action, customer-account tab, widget link, JS handler, and direct URL route. Works identically on Hyva and Luma. One module, admin toggles, no theme edits.

Many storefronts — single-SKU brands, B2B catalogs, industrial supply, jewellery, wholesale — never want Wishlist or Compare shown. Magento's built-in config flags only cover a handful of surfaces and leave behind broken links, empty sidebars, ghost JS handlers, and 302 redirects to a login page. Panth Disable Wishlist & Compare is a clean, comprehensive kill-switch.

• What This Disables
• How It Works
• Compatibility
• Installation
• Admin Toggles
• Restoring the UI
• Troubleshooting
• Support

Wishlist

Compare

The module combines six complementary mechanisms so every rendering path is covered no matter how a theme or widget decides to emit wishlist/compare markup.

1. Layout XML removes on default, catalog_product_view, catalog_category_view, catalog_list_item, catalogsearch_result_index, catalogsearch_advanced_result, and checkout_cart_index — removes every named wishlist/compare block Magento core and Hyva declare.
2. Header-content argument override — Hyva's header.phtml gates the compare/wishlist icons on show_compare / show_wishlist arguments of the header-content block; both forced to false.
3. Helper plugin on Magento\Wishlist\Helper\Data::isAllow() / isAllowInCart() — forces false so any third-party block that checks the helper drops out silently.
4. Block plugin on Magento\Catalog\Block\Product\AbstractProduct::getAddToCompareUrl() / getAddToWishlistUrl() — returns empty string, which breaks the if ($block->getAddToCompareUrl()) gate in every Luma widget template (new_grid.phtml, new_list.phtml, listing.phtml) without any template overrides.
5. Hyva ViewModel plugins on Hyva\Theme\ViewModel\Wishlist and Hyva\Theme\ViewModel\ProductCompare — isEnabled, isAllowInCart, showInProductList, showOnProductPage, showCompareSidebar all forced to false.
6. Route blocking — predispatch event for controller_action_predispatch_wishlist (runs before the customer-session auth redirect, so /wishlist/* returns an honest 404 instead of a 302 to login) plus a controller plugin on Magento\Catalog\Controller\Product\Compare::execute to 404 compare routes. AJAX / POST requests return a JSON stub so stale JS listeners fail quietly.

composer require mage2kishan/module-disable-wishlist-compare
bin/magento module:enable Panth_Core Panth_DisableWishlistCompare
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile
bin/magento cache:flush

Verify

bin/magento module:status Panth_DisableWishlistCompare
# Module is enabled

Check any page — header icons, PDP buttons, category add-to links, and cart row actions for wishlist/compare should all be gone. /wishlist/ and /catalog/product_compare/ should return 404.

Navigate to Stores → Configuration → Panth Infotech → Disable Wishlist & Compare. A direct link also appears under the Panth Infotech admin sidebar.

Note on layout removals: The layout XML removes are module-level — they apply whenever the module is enabled at the CLI. The admin toggles above only affect runtime plugins and route blocking. To restore the UI while keeping the module installed, disable it via CLI (see below).

Option A — keep the module, restore UI

bin/magento module:disable Panth_DisableWishlistCompare
bin/magento cache:flush

Option B — uninstall entirely

bin/magento module:disable Panth_DisableWishlistCompare
composer remove mage2kishan/module-disable-wishlist-compare
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile
bin/magento cache:flush

The compare icon still shows in the Hyva header

You probably hit the edge case where a child theme re-adds header-compare or passes its own show_compare="true" argument to header-content. Confirm by checking var/log/system.log for layout errors, and ensure your child theme's Magento_Theme/layout/default.xml doesn't re-declare show_compare.

/wishlist/ redirects to login (302) instead of 404

Flush the config cache — the predispatch observer reads the "Block Direct URL Access" flag at runtime:

bin/magento cache:flush config

A third-party module re-adds an "Add to Wish List" button

This module plugs every Magento-core integration point. If a third-party module renders its own wishlist button via a custom block, add <referenceBlock name="..." remove="true"/> for that block in a child override or raise an issue.

DI compile fails after composer require

Make sure Panth_Core, Magento_Wishlist, and Magento_Catalog are enabled — they are hard dependencies.

• Issues: github.com/mage2sk/module-disable-wishlist-compare/issues
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