Show out of stock products on the single page, but hide them from the catalog.

[Edward]

Hello, I am using the davinci theme and this is that I am trying to achieve:

I want to keep all the products as published, even if they are out of stock (this is in order for clients that find those products on google do not get a 404 page, instead the clients should see the product but with the message of out of stock), but in the same time I don't want to show those products in my catalog, so I want to hide the products that are out of stock from the catalog, but still show the single-product page for out of stock items.

I tried to edit the taxonomy-product_cat.php, but the singleProductMin() function or the singleProduc() function don't provide any stock information when on the category page, so if the singleProductMin() function could provide an index for the array where it could say if on stock or not, we could use it to hide the product.

How can I achieve this, any thoughts?

 

[Direct Webstore]

I want to keep all the products as published, even if they are out of stock

You can do that in WP Admin>Aliexpress>Updates

 

[Edward]

You can do that in WP Admin>Aliexpress>Updates

Thanks... the only problem is that the products that are out of stock still show up in the catalogue.

 

[Direct Webstore]

Thanks... the only problem is that the products that are out of stock still show up in the catalogue.

I thought that was what you wanted?

I want to keep all the products as published, even if they are out of stock

If they are published, they will show up.

 

[Edward]

I thought that was what you wanted?



If they are published, they will show up.

I want a workaround, an update to the theme, or an example of code, so I can hide the out of stock products from the catalogue, but still have the possibility to access the single product page directly for out of stock products.

 

[Direct Webstore]

Just send them to draft.

 

[Edward]

Just send them to draft.

But people that access those out of stock products from Google will get a 404 error, because they don't have access to drafted posts.

 

[Direct Webstore]

How often does that happen?

Just leave them published with stock levels at 0. I don't see the problem.

 

[Edward]

Around 70% of my products are out of stock, they have good Google ranking and get a lot of traffic to the site, so I don't want to show a 404 because the rentionon rate is lower and Google will remove the url.

But in the same time I don't want to have my product listing page invaded with out of stock products since it can be very annoying for customers.

My shop is 2 years old.

 

[Direct Webstore]

The only thing I can think of is to edit the products manually and replace the seller. There's heaps of sellers selling the same thing. The Url will stay the same.

Unless anyone here has a better idea? I'm out ideas.

 

[Edward]

My shop is 2 years old there are many products that you can't find them anymore. I know it's not possible to achieve what I want with just tweaking some settings inside WordPress.

I am a programmer I will probably try to code it myself inside the theme files.

 

[Direct Webstore]

I am a programmer I will probably try to code it myself inside the theme files.

Product management is not a function of the theme. The plugin handles that and you can't edit the plugin files.

You will just have to submit a sitemap to Google Search Console, delete the products, and remove the pages from Googles search results.

Here's how...
https://www.solodev.com/blog/digita...ows-old-website-pages-in-a-search-result.stml

 

[Edward]

Yes but I don't want to edit the plugin, I will only edit the view (the product category file) and put a condition to not show the product if it's out of stock.

Probably make a child theme to be easy to update the theme in the future.

Thanks I will check also the link.