Removing product pages and linking to external source?

Hi there,

Thanks for including that screenshot! I understand that on the product catalog pages, you’d like for links to go directly to the affiliate link rather than to the product page.

Product pages will continue to exist, as they’re dynamically created when you create a product. However, you could modify the product catalog/archive templates to link to the affiliate link rather than to the product page. To do so, you’d need custom code. I wasn’t able to find an existing plugin/snippet for this.

If you aren’t comfortable working on the code yourself, I highly recommend contacting one of the services on our customizations page: https://woocommerce.com/customizations/

I hope that helps you in the right direction!

Frankly not a very useful answer from the woocommerce support. Fortunately I found the solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49242740/woocommerce-external-affiliate-product-image-and-title-to-external-link-new-t?rq=1

I also added rel=”nofollow” in the code. So in total, the code I added to functions.php of the theme was (remember to create child theme):

remove_action(‘woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item’, ‘woocommerce_template_loop_product_link_open’);
add_action(‘woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item_title’, ‘woocommerce_template_loop_product_link_open’, 15);
add_action(‘woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item’, ‘woocommerce_add_aff_link_open’, 10);
add_action(‘woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item_title’, ‘woocommerce_add_aff_link_close’, 10);

function woocommerce_add_aff_link_open(){
$product = wc_get_product(get_the_ID());

if( $product->is_type( ‘external’ ) ) {
echo ‘get_product_url() . ‘” class=””>’;
}
}

if( $product->is_type( ‘external’ ) ) {
echo ‘‘;
}
}

function woocommerce_template_loop_product_link_open() {
global $product;

if( $product->is_type( ‘external’ ) ) {
$link = apply_filters( ‘woocommerce_loop_product_link’, $product->get_product_url(), $product );
echo ‘‘;
} else {
$link = apply_filters( ‘woocommerce_loop_product_link’, get_the_permalink(), $product );
echo ‘‘;
}
}

I’m glad you found that and shared it – thank you!

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