Reply To: How can I exclude extra relationship posts from Woocommerce archive loop?

• John Huebner

• June 28, 2023 at 11:02 am

What you have planned is a solution, but it could impact the performance of your site significantly if you have a lot of products to deal with and could eventually cause the page to time out.

The easiest fix for this is to add another ACF field, I would use a true/false that I would use to either include of exclude the product from archives. The client would need to set this field when they are adding the relationships. With the addition of this field you could then add a simple meta_query to the main WP query for WC to select the products that get shown. This would mean a little extra work for the client.

Another more complicated option would be to store your “post__not_in” array in a transient so that the value does not need to be regenerated on every page load.