Hide products of subcategories within main categories

Hi fuchsws – did you ever find a solution for this? I am having the same problem and can’t seem to find a solution anywhere. Thanks

yes, here you go:

1) Create a new folder within your theme called “woocommerce” (to be able to overwrite woocommerce-templates)

2) Copy “wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/archive-product.php” to “wp-content/themes/YOURTHEME/woocommerce/archive-product.php”

3) at the beginning of your copied “archive-product.php”, directly after “get_header(‘shop’);” add:

global $wp_query; $term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var($wp_query->query_vars['taxonomy']), $wp_query->query_vars['taxonomy']);

=> This should than only list products within the current category and not any products of subcategories!

Many thanks I’ll give this a go!

Hi,

Many thanks for your help. Unfortunately I can’t seem to get this to work I have a category called individual products and a subcategory of this called career advice. For some reason I’m still seeing the two career advice products also showing up in individual products:

https://www.smartjobsolutions.co.uk/product-category/individual-products/
https://www.smartjobsolutions.co.uk/product-category/individual-products/career-advice/

I have added the code as above to my new archive-product.php file so that it looks like:

<?php
/**
 * The Template for displaying product archives, including the main shop page which is a post type archive.
 *
 * Override this template by copying it to yourtheme/woocommerce/archive-product.php
 *
 * @author 		WooThemes
 * @package 	WooCommerce/Templates
 * @version     2.0.0
 */

if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit; // Exit if accessed directly

get_header('shop');

global $wp_query; $term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var($wp_query->query_vars['taxonomy']), $wp_query->query_vars['taxonomy']);
?>

	<?php
		/**
		 * woocommerce_before_main_content hook
		 *
		 * @hooked woocommerce_output_content_wrapper - 10 (outputs opening divs for the content)
		 * @hooked woocommerce_breadcrumb - 20
		 */
		do_action('woocommerce_before_main_content');
	?>

		<?php if ( apply_filters( 'woocommerce_show_page_title', true ) ) : ?>

			<h1 class="page-title"><?php woocommerce_page_title(); ?></h1>

		<?php endif; ?>

		<?php do_action( 'woocommerce_archive_description' ); ?>

		<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

			<?php
				/**
				 * woocommerce_before_shop_loop hook
				 *
				 * @hooked woocommerce_result_count - 20
				 * @hooked woocommerce_catalog_ordering - 30
				 */
				do_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop' );
			?>

			<?php woocommerce_product_loop_start(); ?>

				<?php woocommerce_product_subcategories(); ?>

				<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

					<?php woocommerce_get_template_part( 'content', 'product' ); ?>

				<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

			<?php woocommerce_product_loop_end(); ?>

			<?php
				/**
				 * woocommerce_after_shop_loop hook
				 *
				 * @hooked woocommerce_pagination - 10
				 */
				do_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop' );
			?>

		<?php elseif ( ! woocommerce_product_subcategories( array( 'before' => woocommerce_product_loop_start( false ), 'after' => woocommerce_product_loop_end( false ) ) ) ) : ?>

			<?php woocommerce_get_template( 'loop/no-products-found.php' ); ?>

		<?php endif; ?>

	<?php
		/**
		 * woocommerce_after_main_content hook
		 *
		 * @hooked woocommerce_output_content_wrapper_end - 10 (outputs closing divs for the content)
		 */
		do_action('woocommerce_after_main_content');
	?>

	<?php
		/**
		 * woocommerce_sidebar hook
		 *
		 * @hooked woocommerce_get_sidebar - 10
		 */
		do_action('woocommerce_sidebar');
	?>

<?php get_footer('shop'); ?>

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Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

ya correct, I forgot a snippet (it was a while ago I figured this out) …

so in your local copy of “archive-product.php” go to

<?php woocommerce_product_loop_start(); ?>
<?php woocommerce_product_subcategories(); ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php woocommerce_get_template_part( 'content', 'product' ); ?>
<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>
<?php woocommerce_product_loop_end(); ?>

And replace by:

<?php woocommerce_product_loop_start(); ?>
<?php woocommerce_product_subcategories(); ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php $terms = wp_get_post_terms(get_the_ID(), $wp_query->query_vars['taxonomy']);
if ($terms[0]->term_id == $term->term_id): ?>
<?php woocommerce_get_template_part( 'content', 'product' ); ?>
<?php endif; endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>
<?php woocommerce_product_loop_end(); ?>

Hopefully that’s all …

Absolutely terrific – works a charm. Thank you so much you’re a life saver!

Hi,

I was able to hide products from subcategories from the parent category, but the paginator and product count remain unaffected by the change, so they the count still counts in the products from the subcategories and pagination displays all pages as before (showing a lot of empty pages).

The dirty fix is to display all products by default but is it possible to make product count and pagination understand the change in the product display?

Best Regards

how did sitesforasnip do it in his example website iam using
wp:3.8.1 and wc:2.1.6
he seems to have made it proper
please advise

Hi there,

I think I just worked around it by changing the number of products displayed per page so that they would all fit on one page the I hid the product count with some CSS. Something like this to change the number of products per page:

// Display 24 products per page. Goes in functions.php
add_filter( ‘loop_shop_per_page’, create_function( ‘$cols’, ‘return 24;’ ), 20 );

I’m also having this issue, any fix? Above doesn’t work for me.

Thanks, Dan