Online store owners use featured products to highlight specific items, giving them special attention and visibility. If you want to hide shipping only for featured products then it can be easily done with the following code.
add_filter('woocommerce_package_rates', 'ts_custom_shipping_methods', 10, 2);
function ts_custom_shipping_methods($rates, $package) {
// Check if any product in the cart is a featured product
$has_featured_product = false;
foreach ($package['contents'] as $cart_item) {
$product = wc_get_product($cart_item['product_id']);
if ($product && $product->is_featured()) {
$has_featured_product = true;
break;
}
}
// Adjust shipping methods based on the presence of featured products
if ($has_featured_product) {
// If featured products are present, hide all shipping methods except free shipping
$rates = ts_hide_shipping_when_free_is_available($rates);
}
return $rates;
}
// Function to hide shipping methods when free shipping is available
function ts_hide_shipping_when_free_is_available($rates) {
$free = array();
foreach ($rates as $rate_id => $rate) {
if ('free_shipping' === $rate->get_method_id()) {
$free[$rate_id] = $rate;
}
}
return !empty($free) ? $free : $rates;
}
Output
In the below image, it is shown that two of the products are added as featured products.
When featured products are added to cart, it displays only Free shipping option and hides the other shipping methods.
When products other than featured products are added, then it will show all the available shipping options as it is without making any changes as shown below.
Alternatively, you can also hide shipping based on product tags in WooCommerce which will help you to assigns shipping costs based on the product tag items present in the cart.
