Exclude Woocommerce products in recently viewed products widget from a product category

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to exclude product in a category from Recently Viewed Product Widget in Woocommerce.

I know products in a category can be removed/hidden from shop page using the below code

function custom_pre_get_posts_query( $q ) {
    $tax_query = (array) $q->get( 'tax_query' );
    $tax_query[] = array(
           'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
           'field' => 'slug',
           'terms' => array( 'machine' ), // Don't display products in the machine category on the shop page.
           'operator' => 'NOT IN'
    );
    $q->set( 'tax_query', $tax_query );
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_product_query', 'custom_pre_get_posts_query' );

I will like to know how to exclude products in "Machine Category" from showing up in recently viewed product widget. (i'm using a search which auto-suggest products available on the store and it allows users to view product that are hidden from the archive page / category page), so i'd like to exclude the products from the recently viewed product widget if a user was able to access the product through the search.

I have used this code to exclude product in a category from displaying in search results, which works fine as expected but the issue is the auto suggestions which can still display product excluded/hidden from queries

function hello_pre_get_posts( $query ) {
   if ( $query->is_search() ) {
       $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'product' ) );
       $tax_query = array( array(
               'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
               'field'   => 'slug',
               'terms'   => 'machine',
               'operator' => 'NOT IN',
           ),
       );
       $query->set( 'tax_query', $tax_query );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'hello_pre_get_posts' );

Assistance on how to exclude viewed product from Recently Viewed Products Widget will be highly appreciated.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '19 at 23:52

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You need to use woocommerce_recently_viewed_products_widget_query_args dedicated filter hook:

// Exclude products in recently viewed products widget from "machine" product category
add_filter( 'woocommerce_recently_viewed_products_widget_query_args', 'custom_recently_viewed_products_widget_query_args', 10, 1 );
function custom_recently_viewed_products_widget_query_args( $args ) {

    $args['tax_query'][] = array(
           'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
           'field'    => 'slug',
           'terms'    => array( 'machine' ), 
           'operator' => 'NOT IN', 
    );

    return $args;
}

Code goes in function.php file of your active child theme (or active theme). Tested and works.

answered Feb 21 '19 at 23:52

LoicTheAztec

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Applied and Worked!!! Funniest thing i tried something like this but i guess the priority and argument has a big role to play because when i used this earlier after i saw the filter on line 82 on [this page](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/master/includes/widgets/class-wc-widget-recently-viewed.php). it was removing the widget entirely but now the products from category machine is no longer displaying ... Thanks @LoicTheAztec – Kolawole Emmanuel Izzy Feb 22 '19 at 00:01
i was missing `return $args;` in the code i tried which was making the entire widget disappear – Kolawole Emmanuel Izzy Feb 22 '19 at 00:09
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@KolawoleEmmanuelIzzy Filter hooks need always to return the first argument from the hooked function, as they filter it… – LoicTheAztec Feb 22 '19 at 00:36
@LoicTheAztec Is it possible to do this for Best Sellers as well? Or is that plugin specific (WooCommerce Product Carousel, Slider & Grid Ultimate Pro)? – Lyall Apr 23 '19 at 19:42
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@Lyall may be using woocommerce_products_widget_query_args hook… – LoicTheAztec Apr 23 '19 at 20:00
@LoicTheAztec Thank you, I really wish I knew what that meant. I'll look into it – Lyall Apr 23 '19 at 20:08

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