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 Filter e.g. Product Tag @ WooCommerce Products Admin Dashboard

/**
 * @snippet       Custom Filter @ WooCommerce Products Admin
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @compatible    WooCommerce 8
 * @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 custom code?

You should place PHP snippets at the bottom of your child theme functions.php file and CSS at the bottom of its 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 guide "Should I Add Custom Code Via WP Editor, FTP or Code Snippets?" and my video tutorial "Where to Place WooCommerce Customization?"

Does this snippet (still) work?

Please let me know in the comments if everything went 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.

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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.

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

  1. Martin

    Sorry the code works however thanks a lot. I have one question can the same code be used to filter taxonomy e.g. colour or size ?

    thanks

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hey Martin, 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
  2. Martin

    Hi I pasted this code in woocommerce 8 but in the dashboard it only shows filters and does not filter them can someone help with the code

    thank you

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Martin, another reader just said it works perfectly, so you probably have a plugin or theme conflict. 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
      1. Martin

        Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I checked by disabling all plugins and switched to the default twenty-twenty theme and the code unfortunately does not filter anymore.

        Reply
        1. Rodolfo Melogli

          From your latest comment I see this works, so please let me know what the problem was. PHP version? Object cache?

          Reply
      2. Mark Welton
        PRIORITY COMMENTER »

        I too am having an issue with PHP Snippet: Add Custom Taxonomy Filter @ WooCommerce Products Admin Dashboard (Filter by product Tag). Woo 8.0.3 and WP 6.3.1. The filter box does not display any longer. (It used to). I disabled all plugins except Woocommerce and it still did not show the filter by tag in the Admin -> Products section.

        Reply
        1. Rodolfo Melogli

          Works perfectly here (Woo 8.0.3 and WP 6.3.1.). I’m on PHP 7.4, not sure if that’s the reason in case you’re on PHP 8. Also, please try to clear all your caches and try again. Let me know!

          Reply
  3. Hannah

    Still works perfectly. Thanks for sharing. This is really helpful!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      You’re welcome!

      Reply
  4. Mahyulan

    Works!
    Tested with WP5.9.1 and WC6.2.0

    Thanks

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Awesome

      Reply
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. safou

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

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Awesome!

      Reply
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. Giulia

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

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Excellent!

      Reply
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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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