Discontinued Products
Enables WooCommerce Discontinued Products.
Solid choice
Discontinued Products is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 300+ sites, is rated 4.2/5 and was last updated 20 hours ago, and scores 78/100 on our health check.
- Actively developed — last update 20 hours ago
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
- Small user base (300+ active installs)
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Discontinued Products stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| discontinued | #1 |
| discontinued products | #1 |
| ecommerce | >100 |
| woocommerce | >100 |
| WooCommerce products | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 from 5 reviews
About Discontinued Products
From the official readme · v2.0.9Description
WooCommerce Discontinued Products enables discontinued products for WooCommerce.
WooCommerce Discontinued Products requires the most current version of WooCommerce. You can find that here.
Features:
- Flag a product as discontinued.
- Remove add to cart and related functionality like add to wish list.
- Optionally hide product from shop, archive, and / or search pages, with the ability to override this on a per product bases.
- Keep discontinued product pages live for SEO purposes.
- Set text to show on discontinued products globally or on a per product basis.
- Choose one or more products to suggest as alternatives to discontinued products.
- Set text for alternative products globally or on a per product basis.
Translation
- None yet, but all are welcome
Documentation
- WooCommerce Discontinued Products documentation to come. It will be at WooCommerce Discontinued Products wiki on GitHub.
3rd Party Resources
- WooCommerce from Automattic.
Contribution
All contributions welcome. Please read the CONTRIBUTING doc for more details.
Installation
- Extract the .zip file for this plugin and upload its contents to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory. Alternatively, you can install directly from the Plugin directory within your WordPress Install. - Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
Changelog
2.0.9 10.13.2026
- Fixed – Hide from shop now also applies to product tag and attribute archive pages, not only the shop and category pages.
- Fixed – Hide from search now also applies to the general site search, not only the product search.
- Fixed – Product CSV export now includes the discontinued, hide from shop and hide from search values.
- Fixed – Product CSV import now saves the discontinued, hide from shop and hide from search values directly instead of requiring a data update afterwards.
- Fixed – The “discontinued” price class is only added to discontinued products.
- Security – Product discontinued text and alternative product fields are sanitized on save and escaped on output.
- Security – The data update notice and action now require the manage_woocommerce capability.
- Compatibility – Tested with WordPress 7.1.3 and WooCommerce 11.2.1.
2.0.8 03.16.2026
- Fixed – WP_Background_Process class not found error with WooCommerce 10.6+ due to missing library includes.
- Compatibility – Tested with WordPress 6.9.4 and WooCommerce 10.6.1.
2.0.7 03.02.2026
- Fixed – Stray closing
</h4>tag in discontinued notice output producing invalid HTML. - Fixed – Inconsistent HTML tag casing in discontinued notice markup.
- Added – Settings link on the WordPress plugins page for quick access to plugin configuration.
- Compatibility – Tested with WordPress 6.9 and WooCommerce 10.5.2.
2.0.6 02.22.2026
- Fixed – Shop page ID override returning 0 when no discontinued archive page is configured, causing shop links (e.g. mobile navbar) to redirect to homepage.
- Fixed – Discontinued product filtering not applying on product category pages when no discontinued archive page is configured.
2.0.5 02.22.2026
- Fixed – AJAX compatibility issue with themes using WooCommerce AJAX filtering and infinite pagination (e.g. Woodmart). Tax query modifications are now skipped during AJAX requests where template conditional tags do not resolve correctly.
2.0.4 02.22.2026
- Compatibility – Tested with WooCommerce 10.5 and WordPress 6.7.
- Compatibility – Declared HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) compatibility.
- Compatibility – Added multisite network-wide activation support for WooCommerce detection.
- Fixed – PHP 8.1+ TypeError in CSV export when alternative products meta is empty.
- Improved – Updated GitHub Actions workflow to use current checkout action.
- Added – WC requires/tested headers to plugin file.
- Added – Requires PHP header to plugin file and readme.
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Discontinued Products: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 14, 2026
Is Discontinued Products free?
Yes. Discontinued Products is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Discontinued Products safe to use in 2026?
Discontinued Products is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 300+ sites, is rated 4.2/5 and was last updated 20 hours ago, and scores 78/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Discontinued Products?
Discontinued Products is active on 300+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 9,524 times since it launched in July 2016. It was downloaded 217 times in the last 30 days.
Does Discontinued Products work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested Discontinued Products up to WordPress 7.1.3, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.0 or newer.
What PHP version does Discontinued Products need?
Discontinued Products requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Discontinued Products last updated?
The latest version, 2.0.9, was released on October 13, 2026 (20 hours ago).
Who makes Discontinued Products?
Discontinued Products is developed and maintained by twoelevenjay.
What are the best alternatives to Discontinued Products?
The most popular alternatives to Discontinued Products are WP Hardening (discontinued) (10K+ installs), Discontinued Product Stock… (500+ installs) and Discontinued Products for W… (10+ installs).
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