WooCommerce: Display Custom Filters @ WP Dashboard > Products

If you go to WordPress Dashboard > Products you will find default product admin filters such as “Select a category”, “Filter by product type”, “Filter by stock status”. What if you want to add more custom filters to let your shop managers find products easily?

For example, you could add “Filter by product tag” (“product tags” are one of the two default WooCommerce “taxonomies” together with “product categories”). Or, if you use custom taxonomies such as product brands, you could add a “Filter by product brand” dropdown.

Thankfully this is super easy – and here comes the proof 🙂

Adding custom admin product filters in WooCommerce

PHP Snippet: Add Custom Taxonomy Filter @ WooCommerce Products Admin Dashboard

/** 
 * @snippet       Show Custom Filter @ WooCommerce Products Admin
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE 
 * @sourcecode    https://businessbloomer.com/?p=78136
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli 
 * @compatible    Woo 3.5.3
 * @donate $9     https://businessbloomer.com/bloomer-armada/
 */ 

add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_filters', 'bbloomer_filter_by_custom_taxonomy_dashboard_products' );

function bbloomer_filter_by_custom_taxonomy_dashboard_products( $output ) {
  
  global $wp_query;

  $output .= wc_product_dropdown_categories( array(
	'show_option_none' => 'Filter by product tag',
	'taxonomy' => 'product_tag',
	'name' => 'product_tag',
	'selected' => isset( $wp_query->query_vars['product_tag'] ) ? $wp_query->query_vars['product_tag'] : '',
  ) );
  
  return $output;
}

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Where to add this snippet?

You can place PHP snippets at the bottom of your child theme functions.php file (delete "?>" if you have it there). CSS, on the other hand, goes in your child theme style.css file. Make sure you know what you are doing when editing such files - if you need more guidance, please take a look at my free video tutorial "Where to Place WooCommerce Customization?"

Does this snippet (still) work?

Please let me know in the comments if everything worked as expected. I would be happy to revise the snippet if you report otherwise (please provide screenshots). I have tested this code with Storefront theme, the WooCommerce version listed above and a WordPress-friendly hosting on PHP 7.3.

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Rodolfo Melogli

Business Bloomer Founder

Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza.

34 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Display Custom Filters @ WP Dashboard > Products”

  1. Mahyulan

    Works!
    Tested with WP5.9.1 and WC6.2.0

    Thanks

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Awesome

      Reply
  2. Levskyy

    Not showing products with draft status 🙁 Can you help me to also show products with status “Draft”?

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Levskyy! Sorry, don’t you already have a text link for “All | Published | Drafts” products, above the filters?

      Reply
  3. ernest

    This tag filter snippet is perfect for what we were looking for. It worked great, until the most recent WP/Woocommerce updates in the last week(s). Now the drop-down for “Filter by Product Tag” is showing the correct tags, but showing “0” for the numbers for each tag (eventhough there are plenty of products with those tags). Also, filtering no longer works. So something likely has changed with a recent Woocommerce update?

    Would love to use the updated version of this script when it becomes available.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Ernest, thanks for your comment! I just tested this again with Storefront theme and it works perfectly. Maybe your theme (or another plugin) is messing/conflicting with my snippet.

      To troubleshoot, disable all plugins but WooCommerce and also switch temporarily to “Twentytwenty” theme (load the snippet there in functions.php) as explained here: https://www.businessbloomer.com/lesson/trwm4l01/

      Once you do that, does it work? If yes, you have a problem with your current theme or one of the plugins.

      Hope this helps!

      Reply
  4. Alex

    Hello,

    What about if I want to filter products by other attributes, like weight and L/W/H(Dimensions ) please?

    Thanks, and have a nice day.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Alex, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  5. Soulaiman Boutzamat

    A little side note. Implementing this snippet will cause most other filters to disappear..

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Did you use the exact same code?

      Reply
  6. Soulaiman Boutzamat

    Great article as usual.
    Not sure if this is custom work or not, but is it possible to easily implement a “opposite” filter like is NOT in term?

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Yes, it is custom work I’m afraid. Get in touch if needed! Thank you

      Reply
  7. Gabriel

    Hello Rodolfo! First of all thank you for all the help you provide for free!
    Do you know how to configure WooCommerce to sum the total quantity of the products in the ADMIN order page? PLEASE HELP

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Gabriel, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  8. safou

    It worked great and used the code also to filter by product attribute, amazing thanks

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Awesome!

      Reply
  9. Nirmal

    Hi,
    It very useful but I need to filter The admin products using Product SKU Is it possible . please let me know how to do this . Thank you

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Nirmal, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  10. Steven

    Thanks you so much for this custom filter. Is there anyway to filter product tag by typeahead like category filter ?

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Steven, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  11. Carlos Carvalho

    Good solution. Simple and effective.
    Do not have any solutions – that you can share – identically, but for products variation search on order pages?
    Thanks in advance.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Thank you – no I don’t at the moment!

      Reply
  12. Kenny

    Hi bro. How can I filter none-tag products ? I have many products without tags and I want to filter them for adding tags but I dont know how…

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi bro. Try using the existing sort buttons.

      Reply
  13. Schalk Joubert

    Hi, Im trying to do the same wth coupons; I want to either filter them by usage_limit_per_user, or sort them by usage_limit_per_user.
    I tried using your code and modified it, but no luck yet.
    https://github.com/schalkjoubert/wc-coupon-filter/blob/master/function

    Will be super if it is possible to fix easily.
    Thank you

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hello Schalk, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is possible – unfortunately this is custom work and I cannot provide a complementary solution here via the blog comments. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding! ~R

      Reply
  14. Giulia

    Man, you save my day.
    Used with product_brand and voila — all working. Thanks!!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Excellent!

      Reply
  15. perusi

    Hello,

    how can we apply this to product status? as anyone knows, when you sort the products, you also see the pending or drafts, and it is very inconvenient. It will be better if on sorting you can only see the published!

    thanks

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hey Perusi, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is possible – unfortunately this is custom work and I cannot provide a complementary solution here via the blog comments. Thanks a lot for your understanding! ~R

      Reply
  16. John

    Hi,
    Thank you for a great article. But actually what I want is to filter products in admin page by tax class. Is that possible? And how to do that? Please help.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hello John, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is possible – but unfortunately this is custom work and I cannot provide a complementary solution here via the blog comments. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding! ~R

      Reply
  17. ivillamor

    It worked perfect!
    Can I add more filters? Something like store or taxes?
    Thank you very much!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hey there – thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is possible – but unfortunately this is custom work and I cannot provide a complementary solution here via the blog comments. Thanks a lot for your understanding! ~R

      Reply
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