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Admin-configurable module that lets you hide unwanted links from the customer My Account sidebar without editing any templates or layout XML.

Replicates the behaviour of MagePal's "Customer Dashboard Links Manager", with the same configuration model: pick which links to manage, choose whether to hide them or show only them, save — done.

Features


Hide individual customer dashboard links	✓
Inverse mode (show only the picked ones, hide everything else)	✓
Configure entirely from Magento Admin — zero coding	✓
Works on standard Magento + Adobe Commerce + Hyvä themes	✓
Supports per-store-view configuration	✓
Supports custom extension links via the "Extra block names" textarea	✓
Doesn't change any templates or layout XML on disk	✓
Doesn't add any frontend JS or CSS	✓

Compatibility

Platform	Status
Magento Open Source 2.4.4 – 2.4.8	✓
Adobe Commerce 2.4.4 – 2.4.8	✓ (includes AC-only links: Reward Points, Gift Card, Gift Registries, RMA, Store Credit, Recurring Payments)
Hyvä themes (any version)	✓ (Hyvä keeps the same `Magento\Customer\Block\Account\Navigation` block class, just re-skins the template — the plugin works unchanged)
PHP 8.1 / 8.2 / 8.3 / 8.4	✓

Installation

Option A — Composer

composer require etechflow/module-account-links-manager:^1.0
bin/magento module:enable Etechflow_AccountLinksManager
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile      # production mode only
bin/magento cache:flush

Option B — Manual drop-in

Copy the Etechflow_AccountLinksManager folder into app/code/Etechflow/AccountLinksManager/, then:

bin/magento module:enable Etechflow_AccountLinksManager
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile      # production mode only
bin/magento cache:flush

No database tables are created — settings live in core_config_data.

Configuration

Admin → Stores → Configuration → Etechflow → Customer Dashboard Links Manager

Field	Description
Enabled	Master switch — turns the filtering on/off without uninstalling the module.
Action	• Hide selected links — every link you pick is hidden, the rest stays visible. • Show only selected links — only the links you pick are visible, everything else is hidden.
Links	Multi-select of the standard Magento + Adobe Commerce customer-account-navigation links. Pick whichever you want to manage.
Extra block names	Newline-separated list of layout block names for links added by third-party extensions (e.g. `customer-account-navigation-magefan-blog-comments-link`).

Per-store-view configuration is supported — the same Hide/Show config can differ between Default Store View, French View, etc.

How it works

The module registers an admin config section under Etechflow → Customer Dashboard Links Manager.
When a customer-facing page renders the navigation block, our plugin (Plugin/NavigationPlugin.php) intercepts the block right before it outputs HTML.
The plugin iterates the navigation's child link blocks. For each one, it asks: "Should this link be removed?" — based on the admin's selected mode and link list.
Hidden links are removed via Layout::unsetChild($parent, $childName) — the same mechanism Magento itself uses for <referenceBlock remove="true"/> in layout XML.
The customer sees the cleaned-up sidebar.

No HTML/CSS is rewritten — the link element is simply never rendered. The result is identical to writing <referenceBlock name="customer-account-navigation-orders-link" remove="true"/> in a layout XML file, except it's runtime-configurable from admin.

Why this is Hyvä-safe

Hyvä themes replace the storefront's CSS framework, JS, and templates — but they don't change the PHP block class names. The customer-account sidebar on Hyvä is still rendered by Magento\Customer\Block\Account\Navigation (which extends Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Links).

Our plugin hooks the parent class Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Links::beforeToHtml() and guards by checking getNameInLayout() === 'customer_account_navigation'. This means:

It works on vanilla Magento ✓
It works on Hyvä's re-skinned navigation ✓
It doesn't touch any other Links block on the storefront (footer links, etc.) ✓

The module ships zero frontend assets (no view/frontend/web/css, no js, no phtml overrides). Hyvä has nothing to "be incompatible with."

Uninstall

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

To remove completely:

# If Composer-installed
composer remove etechflow/module-account-links-manager

# If manual drop-in
rm -rf app/code/Etechflow/AccountLinksManager
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento cache:flush

Config entries in core_config_data are left behind but harmless — they're just unread XML paths after the module is gone. To purge them:

DELETE FROM core_config_data WHERE path LIKE 'etechflow_account_links/%';

File layout

Etechflow_AccountLinksManager/
├── registration.php
├── composer.json
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── etc/
│   ├── module.xml
│   ├── acl.xml
│   ├── config.xml                              # default config values
│   ├── adminhtml/
│   │   └── system.xml                          # admin config UI
│   └── frontend/
│       └── di.xml                              # plugin registration (frontend only)
├── Model/
│   ├── Config.php                              # config reader
│   └── Source/
│       ├── Mode.php                            # Hide/Show option source
│       └── AvailableLinks.php                  # multiselect link names
├── Plugin/
│   └── NavigationPlugin.php                    # the filter (Links::beforeToHtml)
└── i18n/
    └── en_GB.csv

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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