How to Hide WooCommerce Products by User Role Using PHP Snippets
Quick answer: To hide a product from certain roles, return false from the woocommerce_product_is_visible filter when the current user has that role. To keep it visible but block buying, use the woocommerce_is_purchasable filter instead. The snippets below cover both, plus hiding prices and targeting users or categories.
Sometimes you need to hide a product or make it non-purchasable depending on the visitor’s user role, for example, make all products non-purchasable for not logged users, i.e. “guests”. You can use a plugin for that or add a PHP snippet to your (child) theme’s functions.php file.
There is a number of ways we can make product non-purchasable or hide it from the shop:
- hide products in the catalog and search results,
- make products non-purchasable,
- remove the price (and “add to cart” button) from the products.
In addition, we can also:
First of all, we will need functions to determine if we need to hide a product for the current user’s role.
if ( ! function_exists( 'wpf_is_current_user_role' ) ) {
/**
* Checks current user's role. Handles multiple roles per user.
*/
function wpf_is_current_user_role( $roles_to_check ) {
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$current_user_roles = ( empty( $current_user->roles ) ? array( '' ) : $current_user->roles );
$roles_intersect = array_intersect( $current_user_roles, $roles_to_check );
return ( ! empty( $roles_intersect ) );
}
}
if ( ! function_exists( 'wpf_do_hide_product' ) ) {
/**
* Checks if the product needs to be hidden.
*/
function wpf_do_hide_product( $product_id_to_check ) {
// TODO: You need to replace product IDs & user roles with your own here.
$products_to_hide = array( 100, 150 ); // product IDs
$roles_to_hide_for = array( '', 'customer' ); // empty string is for the "guest" user role
// Check if the product must be hidden.
return (
in_array( $product_id_to_check, $products_to_hide ) && // product ID match
wpf_is_current_user_role( $roles_to_hide_for ) // user role match
);
}
}
Hiding Products From the Catalog
To hide products from the catalog we can use woocommerce_product_is_visible filter. This will hide selected products in shop and search results. However, the products still will be accessible via direct link.
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add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_is_visible', 'wpf_product_visible_by_user_role', PHP_INT_MAX, 2 );
if ( ! function_exists( 'wpf_product_visible_by_user_role' ) ) {
/**
* Hides product from shop and search results by user role.
*/
function wpf_product_visible_by_user_role( $visible, $product_id ) {
return ( wpf_do_hide_product( $product_id ) ? false : $visible );
}
}
Making Products Non-Purchasable
To make products non-purchasable we can use woocommerce_is_purchasable filter. This will make selected products non-purchasable, i.e. products can’t be added to the cart.
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The algorithm is similar to hiding products in a catalog, however, instead of $product_id we are passing $product->get_id().
add_filter( 'woocommerce_is_purchasable', 'wpf_product_purchasable_by_user_role', PHP_INT_MAX, 2 );
if ( ! function_exists( 'wpf_product_purchasable_by_user_role' ) ) {
/**
* Makes product non-purchasable by user role.
*/
function wpf_product_purchasable_by_user_role( $purchasable, $product ) {
return ( wpf_do_hide_product( $product->get_id() ) ? false : $purchasable );
}
}
Removing products price
We can remove product price by user role and in addition, as there is no price, WooCommerce will make the product non-purchasable automatically.
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Again, the algorithm is similar to hiding product in catalog or making non-purchasable, however, instead of false we are returning empty string ''.
add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_get_price', 'wpf_remove_product_price_by_user_role', PHP_INT_MAX, 2 );
if ( ! function_exists( 'wpf_remove_product_price_by_user_role' ) ) {
/**
* Hides product price by user role.
*/
function wpf_remove_product_price_by_user_role( $price, $product ) {
return ( wpf_do_hide_product( $product->get_id() ) ? '' : $price );
}
}
Hiding Products by User ID Instead of User Role
If we need to check the exact user (instead of user role), we can use user’s ID. “Guest” will have ID at 0.
if ( ! function_exists( 'wpf_is_current_user_id' ) ) {
/**
* Checks current user's ID.
*/
function wpf_is_current_user_id( $user_ids_to_check ) {
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
return ( in_array( $current_user->ID, $user_ids_to_check ) );
}
}
We’ll need to replace wpf_is_current_user_role() with wpf_is_current_user_id() in wpf_do_hide_product() function.
if ( ! function_exists( 'wpf_do_hide_product' ) ) {
/**
* Checks if the product needs to be hidden.
*/
function wpf_do_hide_product( $product_id_to_check ) {
// TODO: You need to replace product & user IDs with your own here.
$products_to_hide = array( 100, 150 ); // product IDs
$users_to_hide_for = array( 10, 20 ); // user IDs
// Check if the product must be hidden.
return (
in_array( $product_id_to_check, $products_to_hide ) && // product ID match
wpf_is_current_user_id( $users_to_hide_for ) // user ID match
);
}
}
Hiding Products by Product Category Instead of Product ID
If we need to hide product by category:
if ( ! function_exists( 'wpf_is_product_cat' ) ) {
/**
* Checks product's category.
*/
function wpf_is_product_cat( $product_id, $product_cats ) {
$current_cats = get_the_terms( $product_id, 'product_cat' );
if ( $current_cats && ! is_wp_error( $current_cats ) ) {
$current_cats = wp_list_pluck( $current_cats, 'slug' );
$cats_intersect = array_intersect( $current_cats, $product_cats );
return ( ! empty( $cats_intersect ) );
}
return false;
}
}
And in wpf_do_hide_product() function:
if ( ! function_exists( 'wpf_do_hide_product' ) ) {
/**
* Checks if the product needs to be hidden.
*/
function wpf_do_hide_product( $product_id_to_check ) {
// TODO: You need to replace product categories & user roles with your own here.
$product_cats_to_hide = array( 'hoodies', 'hats' ); // product categories (slugs)
$roles_to_hide_for = array( '', 'customer' ); // empty string is for the "guest" user role
// Check if the product must be hidden.
return (
wpf_is_product_cat( $product_id_to_check, $product_cats_to_hide ) && // product category
wpf_is_current_user_role( $roles_to_hide_for ) // user role match
);
}
}
