Remove Product Link in Order Emails to prevent confusion

Hi there,

At the moment there’s no acciont hook/filter for that specifically although you can override the template as a whole in a custom child theme. To do that, you’ll want to make use of the following resources:

• https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/template-structure/
• https://www.skyverge.com/blog/how-to-override-woocommerce-template-files/
• https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/256088/how-to-override-woocommerce-template-files

If you’re getting stuck on the code required, we recommend getting in touch with a web developer or one of the customisation experts listed at https://woocommerce.com/customizations/.

Ok thank you for the explanation.
At least it is clear now that we don’t have a hook for that section.
And overriding the whole template just for this minor thing is an overkill.
So I will try to think some other solutions. (maybe I continue to edit the original template after each update until you guys publish a hook for that ?? )

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by someka.

No simple fix yet? Overriding templet is the only way?

@biologix I went ahead and modified the Woocommerce delivery emails. And removed the product from the table.
Now our emails look like this:

Just fyi..

How did you achieve this? I would still like to keep the table and remove the product name hyperlink so if someone buying multiple downloadable products then they are all properly visible in the table view.

Hello,

We have simply edited the HTML of Woocommerce default Email template for “Completed Orders”

It is easy to edit. There is already a button to copy the template into your own theme. You copy and make your own changes.

Hope that helps!

• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by someka.

Here is the solution that I just implemented.

You can do this quite easily by copying the email-downloads.php template to yourtheme/woocommerce/emails/email-downloads.php, and changing this line:

Replace line 44
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( get_permalink( $download['product_id'] ) ); ?>"><?php echo wp_kses_post( $download['product_name'] ); ?></a>

to this one

<?php echo wp_kses_post( $download['product_name'] ); ?>

It keeps the download table as is and removes the product title hyperlink.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by biologix.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by biologix.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by biologix.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by biologix.

@someka If you could tell what lines of code did you exactly remove it would really help me.

Hi @shreyas68,

Looking at the most recent reply from @biologix they referenced the email template fils and also the lines of code they changed within that. I’d suggest following those steps to perform this customisation.