Change the “No products in the cart” message

Hi @juliaangel5,

I’ve been playing with this on my test site, and here is what I found:

You can do a template override. You will want to have the mini-cart.php file in your child theme, /woocommerce/cart/mini-cart.php

The key is, that you have to add an item to your cart and remove it again, to flush the caches – you should then see your changes.

You can also do this with a filter – again, you will need to add an item to your cart, and then remove it, to see the changes:

`
/**
* Change the “No products in the cart” message when hovering over the mini-cart
*
*/

function lar_text_strings( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
switch ( $translated_text ) {
case ‘No products in the cart.’ :
$translated_text = __( ‘new text here’, ‘woocommerce’ );
break;
}
return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( ‘gettext’, ‘lar_text_strings’, 20, 3 );
`

Thank you Laurena. This helps a lot.

Julia

I am having this same problem. I’ve deleted almost every string from every file that says anything about no products in cart !

I tried adding the minicart php to my child theme too but it’s still there!
Where did you add the referenced filter to? And is that particular to any specific theme/plugin? I don’t even care if the “no products in cart” is translated at this point i’d rather it just be gone!

Thanks !

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by lissa777.

Strangely, overriding the template file doesn’t seem to work. I’ve tried with a child theme, then adding product, clearing the mini-cart, re-adding product, re-clearing, clearing cache, nothing.

I have even tried Loco translate plugin to translate the string. Nothing.

The only thing that worked for me was the gettext function that @lrehbein posted above. (don’t forget to correct the ‘ ‘ quotation marks when you copy and paste it)

• This reply was modified 4 years, 12 months ago by Joe Bloggs.