Hide Cart Functions

Several plugins offer the ability to edit the shopping cart functions on the page, including hiding the price, “Add to Cart” button, quantity selector, and product options dropdown, but not often in one plugin. Additionally, none of the available plugins or snippets allow a custom message to appear in any format, including embedded graphics, nor do they allow any combination of hidden shopping cart elements on the same WooCommerce website.

At least not until now! Hide Cart Functions gives a WooCommerce website complete control over each user’s side shop’s functionality while allowing users to create multiple rules to apply to various categories or products within the same system.

Take your shopping page edits one step further; a user can also enter IDs or classes to hide custom elements. This additional provision enables users to customize third-party plugin functions beyond WooCommerce options or adjust those provided by themes with WooCommerce templates. This extra level of customization may yield unexpected results; therefore, use it at your own discretion and thoroughly test it. We cannot resolve any conflicts resulting from the use of this field.

How to Find a Product ID

Open your WordPress dashboard and click on Pages > All Pages. Then, select the page for which you need to find the ID. Once the page has opened, you need to look at the URL in your web browser’s address bar. Here, you will find the page ID number displayed in the page URL, immediately after ?post=.

Plugin Limitation

As a disclaimer to this plugin’s capabilities, it is not possible to create a rule to customize the cart functions for any individual Variable Post ID found within a variable product post. The plugin can only modify the tasks of a Product ID or Category ID due to WooCommerce’s inherent limits, not because of the plugin.

As of version 1.0.4

A requested setting has been added to each rule that allows you to apply it to Guest Users only or Logged-In users only, but not both at once, which would cause a conflict. Leave both unchecked to apply to all users.

As of version 1.0.5

Search and select for products with a 3-letter minimum length was added to ease selecting products for which the rule applies. This addition works in conjunction with the Product ID field, allowing you to use one, both, or neither at the same time.

As of version 1.2.16

New Store-Wide Settings section added with two security options to combat carding attacks. Carding is when bots use your WooCommerce checkout to test stolen credit card numbers by posting directly to checkout endpoints, bypassing any hidden buttons. “Cripple Bots” requires a valid cart session before checkout, blocking direct POST attacks while allowing real customers to shop normally. “Disable Purchases” completely blocks all code-activated purchases as a temporary nuclear option during active attacks. Both settings apply globally and are independent of individual product rules.

Also added “Show Login Button” option which displays a login button in place of the hidden Add to Cart button for guest users. Works with “Guests Only” to encourage visitors to log in to see prices and make purchases. Includes customizable button text and configurable return URL (Current Product Page, Shop Page, Home Page, or My Account Page) so customers return to where they were browsing after logging in.

Translations

All text strings use WordPress translation functions. Includes complete translations for English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Finnish, and Russian. Any edits to the PO files or additional languages are welcome.

Donations

If this free effort assists you, please consider making a small donation from the main plugin page, found on the lower right. All funds assist orphans in destitution.

Technical Details for Release 1.2.16

Load time: 0.409 s; Memory usage: 59.62 MiB PHP up to tested version: 8.4.17 MySQL up to tested version: 8.4.8 MariaDB up to tested version: 12.1.2 cURL up to tested version: 8.18.0, OpenSSL/3.6.1 PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4 compliant. Not tested on 8.5 yet.

Using in Multisite Installation

1. Extract the zip file contents in the wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation. (This is not created by default. You must create it in the wp-content folder.) The ‘mu’ does not stand for multi-user as it did for WPMU, it stands for ‘must-use’ as any code placed in that folder will run without needing to be activated.
2. Follow the plugin setting panel in the WordPress settings menu.

Privacy & Data

This plugin operates entirely on your server with no external services, APIs, or data transmission. All rule settings are stored locally in your WordPress database (wp_options table). No visitor data is collected, tracked, or shared beyond standard WordPress and WooCommerce functionality.

The Cripple Bots security feature uses WooCommerce’s built-in session system to validate that customers added items to their cart before checkout. No additional cookies are created. Blocked bot attempts are logged to WooCommerce’s standard log system (wc-logs) for security monitoring, including the IP address of the blocked request.

The Show Login Button feature redirects guests to the standard WordPress/WooCommerce login page with a return URL parameter – no tracking is involved.

Complete deletion of all plugin settings is available by enabling “Delete Data on Uninstall” in Store-Wide Settings before uninstalling.