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Excluding category from [recent_products] shortcode in Woocommerce – WordPress

We have a POS system running on woocommerce which we use for instore purchases. This means we have a category for items that we do not sell online. I have a plugin which succesfully hides these categories and associated products from the front end but this does not affect the items display when we use the [recent_products] shortcode for some reason.

I’ve attempted to butcher the shortcode to hide this specific category but the items still show:

[recent_products per_page="4" order="desc" cat_operator="NOT IN" category="instore"]

Is this even possible using the recent product’s shortcode? Am I maybe missing something or is there another way I can display new products and exclude the category ‘instore’ – instore is the category slug, by the way, the full category name is Instore only

Category Slug

This has been troubling me for a while now.

Any suggestions will be most welcome.

Best Regards
Donna

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  1. 0

    It’s not possible with the recent_products shortcode alone… would need hook into the woocommerce_shortcode_products_query filter with some PHP code. Though I think you can achieve what you want with the products shortcode like this:

    [products limit="4" orderby="id" order="DESC" visibility="visible" cat_operator="NOT IN" category="instore"]

    More examples here: https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/#scenario-4-newest-products

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  2. 0

    Now that you want to hide it from shortcodes, why dont we give this quy a try:

    function dont_show_instore_products( $args, $atts ) {
        $args['tax_query'][] = [
                'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
                'field'    => 'slug',
                'terms'    => ['instore'],
                'operator' => 'NOT IN'
            ];
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_shortcode_products_query', 'dont_show_instore_products', 10, 2 );

    just add this to your theme’s functions.php right before the ending ?> or if the functions.php doesnt have ?> just add it after the last line and lets see if it does what it should do.

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