WooCommerce: Hide Products Based On Custom Field / ACF Value

We’ve already seen how to hide products based on IP addresses, hide products belonging to a specific category and even hide all products from the Shop page.

Today I want to publish another version of those, but this time we’ll use a custom field / ACF in our conditional logic, so that we can toggle the product visibility based on its value. Enjoy!

Whenever a product has this combination of custom field key -> value, it won’t be shown in the Shop page as the snippet below is altering the product query based on that exact combination.

PHP Snippet: Remove Products With Specific Custom Field Value @ Shop

Simply change “whatever_key” and “whatever_value” below to your custom field / ACF key and value.

This snippet will tell the WooCommerce query to show all products where key = “whatever_key” does not exist OR where value is different from “whatever_value” in case key = “whatever_key” is set.

/**
 * @snippet       Hide Products With Custom Field Value @ Shop
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @compatible    WooCommerce 7
 * @community     https://businessbloomer.com/club/
 */

add_action( 'woocommerce_product_query', 'bbloomer_hide_product_if_cf_query', 9999, 2 );
 
function bbloomer_hide_product_if_cf_query( $q, $query ) {
    if ( is_admin() ) return;
    $meta_query = $q->get( 'meta_query');
	 $meta_query[] = array(
		'relation' => 'OR',
		array(
			'key'       => 'whatever_key',
			'compare'   => 'NOT EXISTS',
		),
		array(
			'key'       => 'whatever_key',
			'value'     => 'whatever_value',
			'compare'   => '!=',
		),
    );
	 $q->set( 'meta_query', $meta_query ); 
}

Where to add custom code?

You should place custom PHP in functions.php and custom CSS in style.css of your child theme: where to place WooCommerce customization?

This code still works, unless you report otherwise. To exclude conflicts, temporarily switch to the Storefront theme, disable all plugins except WooCommerce, and test the snippet again: WooCommerce troubleshooting 101

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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. Follow @rmelogli

2 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Hide Products Based On Custom Field / ACF Value

  1. Hello,

    Can you help me with combining this code with this functionality, so that I can have influence on which products get shown in parent categories based on a custom field?

    https://www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-hide-subcategory-products-on-product-category-pages/

    1. Hello Matthijs, 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!

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