WooCommerce 2.5 Products Page Loop Customisation Problems

Previous to 2.5 content-product.php had <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"> on line 49. That was handy as I didn’t want to have a link to a product page, so I could easily just remove that line and the </a> on line 76. But now those lines are gone. Swallowed up into do_action( ‘woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item’ ) and do_action( ‘woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item’ ).

Now I can remove the link by removing woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item. But this is horrible as it leaves the trailing </a> which is bound up in woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item along with add-to-cart. And as I need add-to-cart, i can’t remove woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item.

What’s the template-based solution to remove the permalink here? (ideally no functions.php bloating plz).

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