WooCommerce: Conditionally Hide Widgets

You could use a popular plugin called Widget Logic, or instead you could keep it simple with a few lines of PHP. Here’s a snippet for you in case you need to conditionally hide a certain sidebar widget given a condition e.g. if you’re on the Cart page.

Of course, you can use any of the available WooCommerce conditional tags and make this more complex, but in this example we’ll keep it simple and check if we’re looking at the Cart page (thanks to the is_cart() conditional). Enjoy!

PHP Snippet: Remove a Sidebar Widget if @ WooCommerce Cart Page

Note: you’ll need to find the sidebar ID (go to the WordPress dashboard > “Appearance” > “Widgets” and right click on the sidebar in question. Click Inspect on Google Chrome and find the sidebar ID) and the widget ID (see screenshot above for 1 way to do that: right click on the widget, click Inspect on Google Chrome, and find the widget DIV ID).

In regard to my sample snippet below, I found out the sidebar ID is ‘sidebar-1‘ and the widget ID I wanted to hide is ‘woocommerce_products-2‘. You need to make sure you’re targeting the correct sidebar/widget or the code won’t work.

/**
 * @snippet       Hide Sidebar Widget @ WooCommerce Cart
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @compatible    WooCommerce 3.7
 * @community     https://businessbloomer.com/club/
 */

add_filter( 'sidebars_widgets', 'bbloomer_woocommerce_conditionally_hide_widget' );

function bbloomer_woocommerce_conditionally_hide_widget( $sidebars_widgets ) {
    if( ! is_admin() ) {
		if ( is_cart() ) {
				$key = array_search( 'woocommerce_products-2', $sidebars_widgets['sidebar-1'] );
				if( $key ) {
					unset( $sidebars_widgets['sidebar-1'][$key] );
			}
		}
    }
    return $sidebars_widgets;
}

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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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