{"id":2417,"date":"2022-07-28T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurestatemedia.com\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2023-07-04T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T16:29:53","slug":"remove-related-products-in-woocommerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurestatemedia.com\/en\/remove-related-products-in-woocommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable & Remove Related Products in WooCommerce – The Right Way To Hide Related Products"},"content":{"rendered":"

WooCommerce related products are setup with transparent intention to expose your WooCommerce store visitors to more of your product range. Why else would WooCommerce show related products on your product pages? There’s a profit incentive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WooCommerce Cross Sell on the Cart Page and WooCommerce Upsells on the Product Page (all types of woocommerce linked products) also come as standard features of WooCommerce Core. Meaning actually, at any one time you could be bombarding the hard earned customer with other products before they’ve even decided to make their first purchase from your store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may have wondered How does WooCommerce pick Related Products to show on the Product Page Unlike WooCommerce Cross Sells or WooCommerce Upsells, WooCommerce Related Products cannot be specified by you, but they can be influenced by putting similar products in the same Product Category<\/strong><\/em> or by using the same Product Tags<\/strong><\/em>. You may have thought that your site was organising WooCommerce related products by category only, but it also takes into account Product Tags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it’s no wonder many merchants, store owners, eCommerce marketers and WooCommerce builders opt to turn off WooCommerce Related Products on the Product Page. So here’s how…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to Hide, Remove & Disable Related Products in WooCommerce<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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How To Remove Related Products in WooCommerce<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You have a few options when it comes to hiding WooCommerce Related Products;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Add some code directly to a child theme’s functions.php<\/code> file (most technical)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Add some code to the main functions.php<\/code> file using a plugin (so theme updates don’t override changes) (not that<\/em> technical)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Use some CSS to stop related products from rendering on the product page (pretty easy)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    <\/span>Removing Related Products in WooCommerce by editing your Child Theme’s functions.php file<\/span><\/h2>
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