A client of mine wanted to show out of stock products on a separate page – so I coded a simple shortcode for you all!
You can use this shortcode for different goals. For example, you might want to display what products you’ve sold to enhance customer trust / social proof.
So let’s see (1) how to create a shortcode and (2) how to take advantage of the existing [products] WooCommerce shortcode and its “ids” parameter to pass just those product IDs that are out of stock!
PHP Snippet: Display Out of Stock Products via a Shortcode – WooCommerce
After you add the PHP below to your website, you can use the shortcode [out_of_stock_products] on any page.
In order for this to work, “Hide out of stock items from the catalog” must be disabled in the WooCommerce settings, otherwise the shortcode will return nothing.
/**
* @snippet Display Out of Stock Products via Shortcode - WooCommerce
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* @author Rodolfo Melogli
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*/
add_shortcode( 'out_of_stock_products', 'bbloomer_out_of_stock_products_shortcode' );
function bbloomer_out_of_stock_products_shortcode() {
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'product',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'post_status' => 'publish',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => '_stock_status',
'value' => 'outofstock',
)
),
'fields' => 'ids',
);
$product_ids = get_posts( $args );
$product_ids = implode( ",", $product_ids );
return do_shortcode("[products ids='$product_ids']");
}