How to Remove Product Tabs

Here are the default product tabs we are going to remove in this tutorial:

Remove Description Tab

The “Description” tab displays the main content area of the product. So, the tab won’t be displayed if the main content is empty.

But if you need a code solution, here it is:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_tabs', 'misha_remove_description_tab', 11 );
 
function misha_remove_description_tab( $tabs ) {
 
	unset( $tabs['description'] );
	return $tabs;
 
}

You should also know something about the hook priority! You must use a value 10 or higher. If you decide to use the value below 10, then nothing will work.

Remove Additional Information Tab

First things first – how to remove this tab without coding? This tab is needed to display product attributes. So… no attributes – no “Additional information” tab 😁

Code approach:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_tabs', 'misha_remove_additional_information' );
 
function misha_remove_additional_information( $tabs ) {
 
	unset( $tabs['additional_information'] );
	return $tabs;
 
}

Remove Reviews Tab

If you want to hide the “Reviews” tab, consider just disabling the product reviews first. You can enable or disable product reviews individually for each product in “Product data” metabox”:

Or you can also do it globally for all products in WooCommerce settings:

If settings is not what you need, here is a code solution as well 😁

add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_tabs', 'misha_remove_reviews_tab' );
 
function misha_remove_reviews_tab( $tabs ) {
 
	unset( $tabs['reviews'] );
	return $tabs;
 
}

Remove a Custom Product Tab

Maybe you installed a plugin which added a custom tab and you do not want this tab to be displayed on your store product pages. But this plugin doesn’t have any settings where you can just deactivate the tab.

What to do?

1. First of all let’s find out the tab ID, to do it, print_r() the $tabs array inside the woocommerce_product_tabs filter hook, I recommend to set priority 98 to the hook in this case,
2. unset() that tab.

More about Product Tabs

• Change Product Tab Titles and Headings
• Change Product Tabs Order
• Create a Custom Product Tab
• Add or Change Content of Default Product Tabs

Misha Rudrastyh

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