Product Filter – Stock

Legacy Widget

As of WordPress 5.8, the Block Widgets Editor replaces the previous widgets administration. The widget described here is available as a Legacy Widget when using the new Block Widgets Editor. However, to maintain full widget settings functionality, you must install the Classic Widgets plugin which restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress widgets settings screens.

This page describes a Legacy Widget. With the Block Widgets Editor, we recommend to use the corresponding Product Filter – Stock block instead. See the Blocks page for an overview of all available blocks with the extension.

The stock filter that comes with the WooCommerce Product Search extension allows your customers to find products that are available: in stock or on backorder.

The filter displays a convenient option which customers can simply click and have the shop page include only those products which are currently available. The filter can be combined with the other live filters that come with the extension. If you display products which are out of stock in your shop, this filter is useful for customers, as they can quickly see which products are available. See the notes at the bottom of this page if you would like to learn more about how you can hide or show products that are out of stock in your shop.

Settings

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The widget can be used in our theme’s sidebars as a convenient way of displaying only products which are currently in stock or available on backorder. By default, the widget will render if there are any products available at all, so it will not display if all products are out of stock. It will offer a checkbox and link that customers can use to filter the products on the current page.

Heading

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Show heading – This option will display the heading.
Heading – You can use a customized heading or leave it empty to use the default. The heading is displayed if there are eligible products on sale.

Display

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Show on shop pages only – Use this option to display the widget on relevant shop pages only. That includes the shop page, product tag and product category pages etc. This is enabled by default.
Show only if any products are in stock – This option is enabled by default and will cause the filter to be displayed only if there are any products in stock or available on backorder.
Submit button – Whether to show a submit button. This is disabled by default. It can make sense to enable the submit button when you choose to disable live filtering.
Submit button label – Here you can input a customized label shown on the submit button.
Filter – Whether to use live filtering. With this option enabled, clicking the checkbox or the link will take immediate effect and update the products displayed on the page without the need to reload it. With the option disabled, the visitor would have to either click the link or click the checkbox and hit the submit button. This option is enabled by default.

Advanced

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Heading ID – The ID used for the HTML element of the heading.
Heading Class – The class used for the HTML element of the heading.
Heading Element – The HTML heading element.

Notes

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If your shop is currently hiding products that are out of stock and you wish to include them, review the Inventory Options – you can change the corresponding setting via WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Inventory under Out Of Stock Visibility disable the setting to Hide out of stock items from the catalog.