Is it possible to create an admin only tab?

Hi @alisoncutler,

You can control the visibility of your tabs by adding a snippet like this to your functions.php file. It will remove the tab called tab-name if you aren’t an administrator.

add_filter(
	'yikes_woo_filter_all_product_tabs',
	function( $tabs ) {
		if ( ! is_admin() ) {
			unset( $tabs['tab-name'] );
		}
		return $tabs;
	}
);

If you aren’t comfortable editing your functions.php file, you can always use a plugin such as this one.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks,
Jon

Hi there

I downloaded the plugin and added the php:

add_filter(
‘yikes_woo_filter_all_product_tabs’,
function( $tabs ) {
if ( ! is_admin() ) {
unset( $tabs[‘tab-notes’] );
}
return $tabs;
}
);

But it is still showing that tab. Example at: https://salceyforestnursery.co.uk/product/echium-vulgare-blue-bedder/

It is the Notes tab that I want to hide.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by alisonparsons.

Hi @alisoncutler,

First, I would try changing the tab name in the code to notes instead of tab-notes. See if that works.

If not, since the tab is added by another plugin it’s possible that the hook won’t work. If the other plugin provides a similar hook, you can try that. You can also try the default WooCommerce hook, named woocommerce_product_tabs.

You’d need to update it like this:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_tabs', 'woo_remove_product_tabs', 98 );

function woo_remove_product_tabs( $tabs ) {

   if ( ! is_admin() ) {
	unset( $tabs['notes'] );
   }

    return $tabs;
}

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by jpowersdev.

Right… I changed it to ‘notes’ and now the tab is not showing… but when logged in as admin I cannot see it?

also tried the second suggestion, again hides the tab – but from admin also.

Hi @alisoncutler,

I’m sorry, that’s my mistake. is_admin() is not the correct function to call, it’s actually current_user_can('administrator').

If you update it to say if ( ! current_user_can('administrator') ) { it should work.

Thanks,
Jon

Perfect! That works now. Thank you very much for your help. ??

Sorry, forgot to tick resolved…done now…

Great! Glad you got it working.

Take care,
Jon