Magento 1 Stock Status

Question

I am trying to figure a way to hide show stock status/availability on product page unless it is out of stock. I have all the settings configured to where it displays stock status on front end as normal, however I don't want to show "In Stock" only if the item is out of stock then I want it to display Availability "Out of Stock" only. A lot of our items are ordered through other vendors and drop shipped to customer therefore I don't want to display stock status on those items. Only the items we exclusively ship from our location.

Answer 1

To hide stock status on "In Stock" products, you can comment code for instock in following file:

app/design/frontend/{{Theme_Package}}/{{Theme_Name}}/template/catalog/product/view/type/availability/default.phtml

code will be look like after Changes:

$_product = $this->getProduct(); ?>
    <?php if ($this->displayProductStockStatus()): ?>
        <?php if ($_product->isAvailable()): ?>
            <!-- <p class="availability in-stock">
                 <span class="label"><?php echo $this->helper('catalog')->__('Availability:') ?></span>
                 <span class="value"><?php echo $this->helper('catalog')->__('In stock') ?></span>
            </p> -->
        <?php else: ?>
    <p class="availability out-of-stock">
        <span class="label"><?php echo $this->helper('catalog')->__('Availability:') ?></span>
        <span class="value"><?php echo $this->helper('catalog')->__('Out of stock') ?></span>
    </p>
<?php endif; ?>

Now Stock status shows only on Out of Stock Products