Omit certain categories using a hook
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Hi,
My client wants to omit some of the categories on one of their product archives.
eg. Product category page 1 they only want to show Tables, Chairs.
All other product categories will show the full catalogue, Tables, Chairs, Cushions, Benches, Sets, etc. etc.
I've got the conditional statement in my template so can use two separate shortcodes, but it seems that I can't just select certain categories to show in a shortcode. Is this correct?
As a test I've tried to add a filter using the hook 'woof_get_tax_query' to omit a category ID 169 by adding this to my functions.php - It has no effect.
add_filter('woof_get_tax_query', 'exclude_product_category_from_woof', 10, 1);
function exclude_product_category_from_woof($tax_query) {
foreach ($tax_query as $key => $query) {
if ($query['taxonomy'] === 'product_cat') {
$tax_query[$key]['terms'] = array_diff($query['terms'], [169]);
}
}
return $tax_query;
}
Am I in the correct ballpark? :)
Many thanks
Byron
Hello Byron
If you want to change the displayed products then you need to change the request in the template (not in the filtering plugin). so it depends on the template you use to display the products
to exclude categories from the filter you can use this hook - https://products-filter.com/hook/woof_sort_terms_before_out
Hi Pablo, thanks for the quick response :)
I'm trying to use the hook to exclude product cat ID 169 (Chairs) just to test the code but the category is still in the list. I've removed all excludes from the plugin settings. Sadly it's not working.
function my_exclude_categories($terms) {
// Define the category IDs to exclude 169 Chairs
$excluded_category_ids = array(169);
// Filter the terms, removing the excluded categories
$terms = array_filter($terms, function($term) use ($excluded_category_ids) {
return !in_array($term->term_id, $excluded_category_ids);
});
return $terms;
}
add_filter('woof_sort_terms_before_out', 'my_exclude_categories');
Any more advice?
Thanks,
Byron
Hello Byron
I recommend adding a taxonomy check to only check categories
and use $term['term_id'] instead of $term->term_id
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