WooCommerce: Hide Related Products @ Single Product Page

Adding content to the WooCommerce Single Product Page is super easy – but what if you wish to remove / hide a default element?

Well, in this case it gets even easier. All you need to know is the default hook used by WooCommerce – so that you can remove it with one line of PHP in your functions.php. You can find a list of default hooks here: (https://businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-visual-hook-guide-single-product-page/)

For example, how do we hide the Related Products? Well, here’s one line of code that will help you!

WooCommerce: Hide Related Products

PHP Snippet: Hide Related Products @ WooCommerce Single Product Page


/**
 * @snippet       Hide Related Products @ WooCommerce Single Product Page
 * @how-to        Watch tutorial @ https://businessbloomer.com/?p=19055
 * @source        https://businessbloomer.com/?p=72966
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @testedwith    Woo 3.3.4
 */

remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_single_product_summary', 'woocommerce_output_related_products', 20 );

It’s that simple, yes 🙂

Where to add this snippet?

You can place PHP snippets at the bottom of your child theme functions.php file (before "?>" if you have it). 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+.

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Rodolfo Melogli

Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as a 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.

10 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Hide Related Products @ Single Product Page”

  1. Jessa

    I just added this to my functions.php and the related products section below the product description is still showing up. 🙁

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hello Jessa, 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 “Twentyseventeen” theme (load the snippet there in functions.php) – does it work? If yes, you have a problem with your current theme or one of the plugins.

      Hope this helps!

      R

      Reply
  2. Sarah

    Hi.
    How can we hide _Out of Stock_ products in related products?
    Thanks

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hello Sarah, 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
  3. Jamel

    Hi Rodolfo,

    Thanks for your snippets. How can we change the text you might also like?

    Thanks Jamel

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hey Jamel, there’s a snippet for that 😀 https://businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-change-may-also-like-text/

      Reply
  4. Natalia

    After Updates my site has related products only if you are logged in!

    Can you please suggest anything to undo that ? I want everybody to see related products.

    thanks in advance

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hey Natalia, thanks for your comment 🙂 My snippet doesn’t do that, so it must be something else. Sorry!

      Reply
  5. Ron

    Why in the world would you want to do this (hiding related products)? I can think of several benefits to having related products, helping SE’s crawl, showing customers what they really wanted, etc … but cons?

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Eheh, thanks so much for your comment Ron! Some custom product pages require no Related Products, not all ecommerce websites are born equal 🙂 For example, if you only have 1 product per category. Or if each product is really specific to a single audience. Or for custom designs. Or maybe instead of automatically-generated Related Products, you want to show a “recommendation engine”. Hope this helps!

      Reply
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