Remove both “Add to cart” and “Read more” Buttons

But before we dive into the code, let me explain the difference between hiding the “Add to cart” button and making products non-purchasable.

In this tutorial we are about just to hide the buttons, that’s all, so products still will be available for purchase, e.g. in the cart or maybe via a direct link. If you want to completely disable product purchases, this tutorial is for you.

You can also do both. Because non-purchasable products still have “Read more” buttons instead of “Add to cart”.

On Archive Pages, Related Products, Cross-sells, Upsells

Archive pages are:

• Shop page,
• Product category pages,
• Product tag pages,
• Search results

This code below also removes “Add to cart” buttons from upsells, cross-sells and related products sections.

remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item', 'woocommerce_template_loop_add_to_cart');

You can add this code to your theme functions.php file and here is the result.

You can also read my other articles on how to remove product prices and the Sale! badge.

But what if you do not need to remove the add to cart button from all the archive pages? Let’s say you need to remove it from certain categories or from related products section.

Conditional tags is the answer.

/*
 * Remove "Add to Cart" button from the product category "Uncategorized"
 */
add_action('wp', 'misha_remove_add_to_cart_product_categories' );
 
function misha_remove_add_to_cart_product_categories(){
	if( is_product_category( 'uncategorized' ) ) {
		remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item', 'woocommerce_template_loop_add_to_cart');
	}
}

• is_product_category() – remove “Add to cart” from specific product category pages
• is_product_tag() – specific product tag pages,
• is_search() – the search results page only,
• is_shop() – from the WooCommerce shop page,
• You can use is_product() to remove “Add to cart” from related products / cross-sells section on single product pages or is_cart() to remove the button from Upsells;

In the WooCommerce product loop it is also possible to use filter hook woocommerce_loop_add_to_cart_link to remove “Add to cart” from products with certain IDs or even for certain product types.

/**
 * Hide the button for the product with ID = 10 AND for variable products
 */
add_filter('woocommerce_loop_add_to_cart_link', function( $add_to_cart_html, $product ) {
 
	if( $product->get_id() == 10 || $product->is_type( 'variable' ) ) {
		return '';
	}
	return $add_to_cart_html;
 
}, 10, 2 );

On Single Product Pages

Easy-breezy 😁

remove_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'woocommerce_template_single_add_to_cart');

More about turning WooCommerce Store into a Catalog

• Remove Product Prices
• Make Products Non-Purchasable