php - Can I hide the WooCommerce product variations menu when the product is sold out?

Question

My site sells paintings, with the option of being framed or unframed. The obvious way to do that seemed to be as product variations. But it's an unusual case, because of course the painting is unique and when either variation is sold the product should be out of stock.

I have the basics of that working now; the product will become unavailable once either variation is sold. But unfortunately the option dropdown still displays, only showing "Out of Stock" after the visitor selects one or other variation. Which seems likely to annoy them.

So what I'm trying to do is hide this options menu and replace it with the standard "Out of Stock" message when the product [or either of its two variations] has been sold. But to my surprise I can't find anyone else who has had this problem, and writing such a function is beyond my own knowledge of PHP and WordPress.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65853343/can-i-hide-the-woocommerce-product-variations-menu-when-the-product-is-sold-out

Answer 1

Similar question was asked here: Add a custom class to variation options displaying "Out Of Stock" in Woocommerce

You can use the answer from that thread to add a css class or append extra text to out of stock variations.
By using the added class you can also hide the items using css.