how to hide out of stock items based on product category

Question

i have been searching for hours but to no avail, i have tried combining codes that work

1.Hiding out of stock products on shop page only:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_query_meta_query', 'shop_only_instock_products', 10, 2 );
function shop_only_instock_products( $meta_query, $query ) {
// Only on shop archive pages

if( is_admin() || is_search() || ! is_shop() ) return $meta_query;

$meta_query[] = array(
    'key'     => '_stock_status',
    'value'   => 'outofstock',
    'compare' => '!='
);
return $meta_query;
}

with

hiding products based on product category:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_query_tax_query', 'custom_product_query_tax_query', 10, 2 );
function custom_product_query_tax_query( $tax_query, $query ) {
if( is_admin() ) return $tax_query;

// HERE Define your product category SLUGs to be excluded
$terms = array( 'ukategorisert' ); // SLUGs only

// The taxonomy for Product Categories
$taxonomy = 'product_cat';

$tax_query[] = array(
'taxonomy' => $taxonomy,
'field'    => 'slug', // Or 'name' or 'term_id'
'terms'    => $terms,
'operator' => 'NOT IN', // Excluded
);

return $tax_query;
}

and tried combining them to become the code below but it didn't work out. :

    add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_query_meta_query', 'prodcat', 10, 2 );

    function prodcat( $meta_query, $query ) {

  // HERE Define your product category SLUGs to be excluded
    $terms = array( 'pouch' ); // SLUGs only

    // The taxonomy for Product Categories
    $taxonomy = 'product_cat';

    $tax_query[] = array(
    'taxonomy' => $taxonomy,
    'field'    => 'slug', // Or 'name' or 'term_id'
    'terms'    => $terms,
    'operator' => 'NOT IN', // Excluded
);

return $tax_query;

  $meta_query[] = array(
    'key'     => '_stock_status',
    'value'   => 'outofstock',
    'compare' => '!='
);
return $meta_query;


}

please shed some of your guidance and knowledge to help hide out of stocks products based on product category.

thank you so much in advance.

Please provide more details of what goes wrong, and distill your problem into a simple example: https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example — Ganesh Sittampalam, Aug 12 '19 at 21:20
woocommerce default settings to hide out of stock products apply to everything, including variation drop downs. with a custom code, basically i am trying to hide out of stock products based on the product category of my choice. the code that i tried combining did not produce any result. it does not hide any out of stock products at all in fact. i am still learning to code, so the code i tried combining must surely not affect anything since it does not produce any result. — AndRa, Aug 13 '19 at 04:49
You should edit your question with updates - take a good look at the link I provided for advice on how to get a good answerable question. At the moment it doesn't make much sense. — Ganesh Sittampalam, Aug 13 '19 at 12:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 18 '19 at 03:23

i didnt realise that my question may be ambiguous or unclear. but well i tweaked around the code and managed to get the same result that i wanted, i.e. hiding out of stock products not globally but based on product category.

this is done using the code from @loictheaztec. his code :

    add_action( 'woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_form', 'woocommerce_sold_out_dropdown' );

    add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_query_meta_query', 'shop_only_instock_products', 10, 2 );
    function shop_only_instock_products( $meta_query, $query ) {
// Only on shop archive pages
    if( is_admin() || is_search() || ! is_shop() ) return $meta_query;

$meta_query[] = array(
    'key'     => '_stock_status',
    'value'   => 'outofstock',
    'compare' => '!='
);
return $meta_query;
}

his code above was to hide out of stock products only on shop page (reference: Hide out of stock products only on shop archive pages in Woocommerce)

basically, i used his code to hide the out of stocks products based on a specific page and on the specific page, i used shortcodes from woocommerce to display a specific product category. so there you go, i have managed to hide out of stock products based on product category. although i must admit it was kind of beating around the bush in order to get to the goal. but well, as long as the work gets done. :)

so here is the code:

    add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_query_meta_query', 'prodcat', 10, 2 );

    function prodcat( $meta_query, $query ) {

 if( is_admin() || is_search() || ! is_page( 9173 ) ) return $meta_query;

// is_page ( 'id of page you want to hide the out of stock products, use array() for multiple pages') //

  $meta_query[] = array(
    'key'     => '_stock_status',
    'value'   => 'outofstock',
    'compare' => '!='
);
return $meta_query;


    }

how to hide out of stock items based on product category

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