top link edit Luma magento 2

Question

I'm trying to change the top links "Compare Products My Account Create an Account Sign In". This a child theme. I've attempted to change both the default.xml and layout.xml in my layout directory. Nothing works.

Shouldn't I be able to do this through admin?

this is 2.0.13 running locally on a mac

Answer 1

You aren't able to do this in the admin, but you weren't able to do this in the admin in m1 either.

But you are on the right track, but the way you need to do this is in the default.xml of the theme module. Create a file here:

app/design/frontend/{vendor_namespace}/{theme_name}/Magento_Theme/layout/default.xml

And include this code:

<referenceBlock name="top.links">
    <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link\Current" name="gag-my-quote" after="-">
        <arguments>
            <argument name="label" xsi:type="string">Your Custom Link</argument>
            <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">your/custom/link</argument>
        </arguments>
    </block>
</referenceBlock>

It is possible to add in a block into the header that calls a cms block (for future ease of use), it's not that hard to do and can be done in this same file, if you want help setting that up, let me know.