WooCommerce: Find Products With No Weight @ WP Admin

If your shipping rates depend on product weight, it is very likely you’ve forgotten to add weight to ALL your products. In this way, some shipping rates may be underestimated on the WooCommerce Checkout page.

So, here’s how to print a notice on the WordPress Dashboard > Products screen with a list of products that have no weight, together with the links to edit them quickly.

This is a handy snippet you can reuse for other case scenarios such as easily finding products with no dimensions, no prices, no images, no custom field value, or even a specific weight or given price. Enjoy!

Here’s my custom notice with the list of products that have no weight. Now I can click on each link to edit each single product directly.

PHP Snippet: Display List of Products With No Weight @ WP Dashboard > Products

add_action( 'admin_notices', 'bbloomer_products_no_weight_admin' );

function bbloomer_products_no_weight_admin(){
    global $pagenow, $typenow;
    if ( 'edit.php' === $pagenow && 'product' === $typenow ) {
		echo '<div class="notice notice-warning is-dismissible"><h3>Products with no weight</h3><ul>';
		$args = array(
			'status' => 'publish',
			'visibility' => 'visible',
			'limit' => -1
		);
		$products = wc_get_products( $args );
		foreach ( $products as $product ) {
			if ( ! $product->get_weight() ) {
				echo '<li><a href="' . esc_url( get_edit_post_link( $product->get_id() ) ) . '">' . $product->get_name() . '</a></li>';
			}
		}
		echo '</ul></div>';
    }
}

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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.

11 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Find Products With No Weight @ WP Admin”

  1. Amy

    This is really great! We have 90 products, with 4 variations. These do not change, (once a year at the most) we thought we had every variation with weight, so added this out of curiosity, and it brought up quite a few!
    Thank you
    Amy

    Reply
    1. Amy

      PS
      I am going through the list and the ones that I have done are still there – I have cleared cache/refreshed etc, that is the only slight fault.

      Reply
      1. Amy

        sorry – running notes here
        it is not working correctly. The list has products where all the weights are there and correct. It was only the first few which needed to be changed (all had one variation which is not enabled atm)
        thank you anyway!

        Reply
        1. Rodolfo Melogli

          I’d say this snippet fully works for simple products only. Can you confirm?

          Reply
  2. Paulo

    Great!
    How can I display the products variations with no Weight?
    Thank you.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Paulo, 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
  3. Jason

    Thanks, this is will be very useful. What is the purpose of the $products_no_weight array? It doesn’t appear to exist.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Jason, you can remove that line, mistake of mine

      Reply
  4. Lucas

    Hi, Rodolfo

    Great!!!
    I found this incredible, it really is very useful.

    How do I get the list of products without dimension information (height x width x length)?

    Reply
    1. Lucas

      more details….

      Perhaps it would be interesting to display it in the list when any of this data was missing: Height, Length, Width.

      Reply
      1. Rodolfo Melogli

        Hi Lucas, 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
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