Hide a WooCommerce Category from the Search Result

In this post we will show you how to add a product category restriction to the search bar results in the menu. In our example, we will search for “sample products” because there are some products with the category “Sample Products”. Then, we will try to remove these products from the search results with PHP code.

 

When we first search for “sample products”, all products with the “Sample Products” category are displayed below each other:

Hide a WooCommerce Category from the Search Result

 

You can remove a category from the search results by adding the following code to your functions.php file. If you want to remove another category, simply change the value at “terms”.

function arrow_design_hide_rentals_from_search_pre_get_posts( $query ) {

if (!is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_search()) {

$query->set( 'post_type', array( 'product' ) );
$tax_query = array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'Sample Products', 
'operator' => 'NOT IN',
),
);$query->set( 'tax_query', $tax_query );
}

}add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'arrow_design_hide_rentals_from_search_pre_get_posts');

After adding and saving the code and searching for “sample product” again, this is shown:

Hide a WooCommerce Category from the Search Result

Conclusion

We hope this Hide a WooCommerce Category from the Search Result post was helpful and you are now able to integrate this also on your website! You can find more articles here:

 

Read another Woocommerce post : ‘Disable the WooCommerce Variable Product Price Range

 

Arrow Design, based in Dublin, Ireland, provides quality website design services in Dublin and beyond at affordable prices. If you would like help with implementing the above code, or any wordpress website development project, contact us. We love website design and it shows! We provide custom wordpress plugin development, website design training and lots more.

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