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Learn how to efficiently set featured products as false when they're sold in WooCommerce, leveraging the right hooks and code snippets.
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Introduction

Managing product visibility in WooCommerce is crucial for online store owners. One common requirement is to remove a product's featured status once it has been sold. This can help maintain the integrity of what you offer at any given time and can improve user experience. In this post, we’ll explore how to achieve this using proper hooks in your WooCommerce setup.

The Problem

If you’ve tried to automatically set a sold product as non-featured using the woocommerce_order_status_processing hook but found it doesn’t work as intended, you're not alone. This hook doesn't always trigger with every order, which can lead to confusion and frustration when attempting to update product statuses effectively.

The Solution

To correctly adjust the featured status of sold products, we’ll make use of the woocommerce_thankyou hook, which is executed once an order has been completed. This ensures that your code will run every time an order is finalized, allowing for accurate updates to product statuses.

Step-by-Step Code Implementation

Here’s how you can implement this solution with a detailed breakdown:

1. Create the Function

First, we will create a new function that will handle the featured status update. The function will check each item in the order and, if it is a featured product, will set its featured status to false.

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2. Hook into WooCommerce

Now we need to hook our new function into the proper WooCommerce action, so it runs when an order is completed:

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3. Place the Code in the Right File

To ensure the code works, add the above snippets to your theme’s functions.php file, or use a site-specific plugin. This makes it easy to maintain and update without interfering with your theme’s core files.

Final Thoughts

By implementing this simple code, you ensure that once a product has been sold, it is automatically removed from the featured status, keeping your product visibility relevant and accurate. This approach not only enhances user experience but also helps manage your online store more efficiently.

Summary

Use woocommerce_thankyou hook instead of woocommerce_order_status_processing for updating featured product statuses.

Loop through each item in the order and check its status.

Ensure to save the product updates to reflect changes.

With these changes in place, WooCommerce will work seamlessly to adjust product statuses as intended. Happy selling!