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!


/**
 * @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 code?

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 delicate files - if you need more guidance, please take a look at my free WooCommerce Customization video tutorial.

Does this snippet still work?

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Rodolfo Melogli

Author, WooCommerce expert, WordCamp speaker and Internet marketer, Rodolfo Melogli has worked as a WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. He helps entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares :) Rodolfo is the organiser of WordCamp Dublin, the Dublin WooCommerce Meetup, the Dublin Ecommerce Meetup and the Dublin WordPress Meetup. He enjoys interacting with people, travelling and chasing tennis & soccer balls. Of course, he loves pizza too.

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

Natalia
October 9, 2018

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

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  October 15, 2018
  
  Hey Natalia, thanks for your comment 🙂 My snippet doesn’t do that, so it must be something else. Sorry!
Ron
April 5, 2018

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?

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  April 5, 2018
  
  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!