This is a small detail, but WooCommerce doesn’t have built-in any function for hiding shipping methods based on different situations. Imagine when your customers have a full cart, free shipping method available and they can still choose another one. Make sense? No. Maybe it’s good for a miss click -> you got extra money $$ (haha). But it’s better to hide it, agree?
Few situations when you want to hide shipping methods:
- Hide other shipping methods when “Free Shipping” is available
- Hide shipping methods for specific shipping class in WooCommerce
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Hide shipping methods except for local pickup for a specific product category
Hide other shipping methods when “Free Shipping” is available
This following piece of code will hide all other shipping methods excluding Local Pickup when the Free shipping method is available. To make it work, it required to set a minimum order amount for the free shipping method in administration.
Insert code below anywhere into your active theme folder (/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/functions.php):
add_filter( 'woocommerce_package_rates', 'show_hide_shipping_methods', 100 );
function show_hide_shipping_methods( $rates ) {
$free_rate_id = '';
$other_rates_ids = [];
// Loop through available shipping rates
foreach ( $rates as $rate_id => $rate ) {
if ( 'free_shipping' === $rate->method_id ) {
$free_rate_id = $rate_id; // grab "Free shipping" rate ID
}
// Get all other rates Ids (excluding "Free shipping" and "Local pickup" methods)
if ( ! in_array( $rate->method_id, ['free_shipping', 'local_pickup'] ) ) {
$other_rates_ids[] = $rate_id;
}
}
// Disable All other rates Ids when "Free shipping" is available (excl. "Local pickup")
if ( ! empty($free_rate_id) && isset($rates[$free_rate_id]) && sizeof($other_rates_ids) > 0 ) {
foreach ( $other_rates_ids as $rate_id ) {
unset($rates[$rate_id]);
}
}
return $rates;
}
Because this issue is very common, official WooCommerce Docs has an article on their website regarding this exact issue with hiding shipping methods when free shipping is available.
Hide shipping methods for specific shipping class in WooCommerce
At first, you need to find a shipping class. You can do it through browser HTML inspector, like that:
Cool, you have to shipping class ID. Now you can insert code below anywhere into your active theme folder (/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/functions.php):
add_filter( 'woocommerce_package_rates', 'hide_shipping_method_based_on_shipping_class', 10, 2 );
function hide_shipping_method_based_on_shipping_class( $rates, $package )
{
if ( is_admin() && ! defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) )
return;
// HERE define your shipping class to find
$class = 92;
// HERE define the shipping method to hide
$method_key_id = 'flat_rate:7';
// Checking in cart items
foreach( $package['contents'] as $item ){
// If we find the shipping class
if( $item['data']->get_shipping_class_id() == $class ){
unset($rates[$method_key_id]); // Remove the targeted method
break; // Stop the loop
}
}
return $rates;
}
Hide shipping methods except for local pickup for specific product category
We used this following code for a specific store with a lot of weapons. In categories array, you must fill slugs, names, or IDs of categories. After that, if your customer wants to buy any product from these categories, he must use only local pickup.
add_filter( 'woocommerce_package_rates', 'hide_shipping_methods', 90, 2 );
function hide_shipping_methods( $rates, $package ){
// HERE set your product categories in the array (IDs, slugs or names)
$categories = array( 'category-slug');
$found = false;
// Loop through each cart item Checking for the defined product categories
foreach( $package['contents'] as $cart_item ) {
if ( has_term( $categories, 'product_cat', $cart_item['product_id'] ) ){
$found = true;
break;
}
}
$rates_arr = array();
if ( $found ) {
foreach($rates as $rate_id => $rate) {
if ('local_pickup' === $rate->method_id) {
$rates_arr[ $rate_id ] = $rate;
}
}
}
return !empty( $rates_arr ) ? $rates_arr : $rates;
}
