Remove/Hide products on Catagory page and Search result page

Question

We need to hide certain products on both pages, Category/Search result page. We have an attribute called "discontinued" of Yes/No type. If it is set to yes, then products should not be in the category page and search result page.

Only when search with sku, it should go to the product page. For now, when we search with sku, it goes to the product page, because we enable Goto product page if only one search result. We just want to remove them from category and search result page.

Please reply.

Answer 1

For this you can try below code.

Create plugin in di.xml file

app/code/[vendor]/[Module]/etc/di.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <type name="Magento\Catalog\Model\Layer">
        <plugin disabled="false" name="Vendor_Module_Plugin_Magento_Catalog_Model_Layer" sortOrder="10" type="[vendor]\[Module]\Plugin\Magento\Catalog\Model\Layer"/>
    </type>
</config>

Now create Plugin PHP file

[vendor]\[Module]\Plugin\Magento\Catalog\Model\Layer.php

<?php

namespace [vendor]\[Module]\Plugin\Magento\Catalog\Model;

class Layer
{

    public function aroundGetProductCollection(
        \Magento\Catalog\Model\Layer $subject,
        \Closure $proceed
    ) {
        $collection = $proceed();
        $collection
            ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
            ->addAttributeToFilter(array(
                array(
                    'attribute' => 'discontinue',
                    'null' => true),
                array(
                    'attribute' => 'discontinue',
                    'eq' => '0')
            ));
        return $collection;
    }


}

Note: Before this plugin please create discontinue product attribute and place your attribute code in plugin file