Nicola Mustone

Happiness Lead @ Automattic

Hide the product’s weight and dimensions

If you are not selling digital products, you are probably using the weight and dimensions for your products because you need to ship them. At least the weight will be required for all the shipping services.

The “problem” is that when you add those data in the product, they appear in the single product page. How can you hide them?

There’s a very quick way to hide those data since they are not useful to the customers in most cases.

Open your functions.php file located in wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/ and add this code at the end of it:


/**
* Hides the product's weight and dimension in the single product page.
*/
add_filter( 'wc_product_enable_dimensions_display', '__return_false' );

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40 responses to “Hide the product’s weight and dimensions”

  1. Todor Avatar
    Todor

    Hi, Nicola!

    Can you please advise on how to change the position of weight and dimensions (1) and the rest of the atributes in the Additional information tab (2)?

    I would like in Additional information tab to have all custom atributes first and right below them – the weight and size.

    How to achieve that?

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      You need to override the template for the attributes. They are hard coded, can’t be moved without editing the template.

      Reply
  2. Cliff Kujala Avatar
    Cliff Kujala

    I’d like to change the description text to Shipping Weight, and Shipping Dimensions. The default is confusing, as a shopper might think that information is the actual product weight and/or dimensions. Easy way to do so?

    Also, how about displaying custom meta on the same tab if we created custom meta for actual: product_weight, product_length, product_height, product_width? Possible?

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      Hi Cliff,
      to change the text you have to replace the template single-product/product-attributes.php in your theme. To learn how, please check this tutorial: https://docs.woothemes.com/document/template-structure/

      The same is needed to add some custom meta to that tab.
      You can copy the table structure from the other data, then print the custom meta value with echo get_post_meta( $product->id, '_custom_meta_name', true );.

      Reply
      1. Chrisco Avatar
        Chrisco

        I was able to add shipping in front of weight and dimension. Thanks so much!

        Reply
      2. Danial Siddiqui Avatar
        Danial Siddiqui

        Thx its helps me a lot.

        Reply
  3. Cliff Kujala Avatar
    Cliff Kujala

    Forgot to follow by email.

    Reply
  4. Alan Avatar
    Alan

    Much thanks! Was easy to implement.

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      You did it! Woo!

      Reply
  5. Sandy Avatar
    Sandy

    Hi,
    The code you advise to add did not work for me …
    Added the code on functions.php but nothing happened, the dimensions are still shown on the single product page 🙁
    Last versions on both WP & Woo

    Any ideas?

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      Hi,
      Did you try to switch to a different theme?

      Reply
  6. Rubén Villar Avatar
    Rubén Villar

    Hi Nicola, thank a lot!

    I´ve used it with Divi (child) Theme and it works flawlessly.

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      Hi Rubén,
      Thanks for letting me know and for reading!

      Have a nice day!

      Reply
  7. rememberhim Avatar
    rememberhim

    Thanks. This worked!

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      You’re welcome!

      Reply
  8. Zawar Avatar
    Zawar

    Thanks!! So good!

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      You’re welcome Zawar!

      Reply
  9. michael mcdonough Avatar
    michael mcdonough

    this isnt working now after the newest update please help

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      Hi Michael,
      I think it is related to a conflict in your site.

      As you can see here the filter is still used, and that function prevents the dimensions and weight to show, here.

      Please test with a different theme or disable the overridden templates, it will probably fix the issue.

      Reply
  10. Sue Bentley Avatar
    Sue Bentley

    Worked perfectly for me thank you

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      Great! You’re welcome!

      Reply
  11. Armin Avatar
    Armin

    Its not work in WC 2.6.8.

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      Hi Armin,
      I checked in the core of WooCommerce and the filter is still there, as you can see here.

      Maybe you added the code wrongly or something is conflicting with it.

      Reply
  12. Paul Avatar
    Paul

    Thanks Nicola, works perfectly!

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      You’re welcome Paul!

      Reply
  13. Kristen Avatar
    Kristen

    Thank you! It removed the shipping weight but didn’t remove the additional information tab. Can you pretty please help with this?

    Reply
  14. Kurban Avatar
    Kurban

    Hi,

    Thank you very much for the code you have provided. I just copy and past code to funciton.php in theme. Yes, it works! Now weigh has been hideded. I do not want to display the weight since there is no correct weight information is available for my products.

    Thanks again

    Kurban

    Reply
  15. Jo Avatar
    Jo

    Awesome. Thank you.

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      You’re welcome!

      Reply
  16. Jessie Avatar
    Jessie

    Hii! Thanks it worked!
    But, if I want to hide only the dimensions (height/width) and still show the info weight? How do I do that?

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      Hey Jessie,
      That needs to be done via CSS then, it would be easier.

      Reply
  17. ciscopere Avatar
    ciscopere

    Thank you very much.
    There is a typo in the filter comment: ‘teh’.

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      Fixed, thanks.

      Reply
  18. daniel Avatar
    daniel

    Hi,
    I’m displaying the product dimensions outside the “additional information” tab using get_weight, get_height, etc
    How do I remove the dimensions only from the product tabs?

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      If you are using those functions to show the data outside of the tab this code will not affect them.

      Reply
  19. Paul Avatar
    Paul

    Works perfectly from the first shot! Thanks for the snippet!

    Reply
    1. Nicola Mustone Avatar
      Nicola Mustone

      You’re very welcome Paul!

      Reply
  20. Hans Avatar
    Hans

    On a variable product page, is there a way to only show this info after a variation has been selected?

    My product comes in different sizes and the additional information tab is useful, but not before a variation has been selected. Before a user has selected a variation the tab just says says “Dimensjons: I/A”. This is unnecessary and doesn’t look very good. I have custom dimensions for each variation.

    Reply
  21. Gabriele Avatar
    Gabriele

    Wow. Perfect! Nice solution.
    Ciao.

    Reply
  22. jefferson Maes Avatar
    jefferson Maes

    How can I change the display order of the dimensions in admin and to users, like width/height/length?

    Reply

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