WooCommerce. How to exclude subcategory products from category listing page

This tutorial will show you how to exclude subcategory products from Woocommerce category listing page.

This means that when viewing a main/parent category you will only view products of this single category and not the products of all containing subcategories.

This can be resolved by editing a core file of the child theme. Please follow the steps listed below :

1. Navigate to Appearance > Editor and locate custom-functions.php of your child theme:

   

2. Open it to edit and paste the following code before the closing tag ?>

   function exclude_product_cat_children($wp_query) {
   if ( isset ( $wp_query->query_vars['product_cat'] ) && $wp_query->is_main_query()) {
       $wp_query->set('tax_query', array(
                                       array (
                                           'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
                                           'field' => 'slug',
                                           'terms' => $wp_query->query_vars['product_cat'],
                                           'include_children' => false
                                       )
                                    )
       );
     }
   }
   add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_product_cat_children');
   

   
3. Save changes and visit your Shop page:

   

4. You can check if the number of products on the parent category listing page (“Grocery and Frozen”) corresponds to the actual number under Products > Categories:

   

Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below: