Fully disable WooCommerce Endpoints

Question

I've searched the web a lot for this but i did not found an answer yet. So i rely on the specialists here.

I want to disable some woocommerce endpoints. The web told me to unset the woocommerce menu items via woocommerce_account_menu_items hook like:

add_filter ( 'woocommerce_account_menu_items', 'my_remove_my_account_links' );
function my_remove_my_account_links( $menu_links ){
    
    /**
     * Uncomment the appropriate lines to remove specific
     * endpoints in the WooCommerce My Account screen.
     */
    
    //unset( $menu_links['dashboard'] );        // Remove Dashboard
    //unset( $menu_links['edit-address'] );     // Addresses
    //unset( $menu_links['payment-methods'] );  // Remove Payment Methods
    //unset( $menu_links['orders'] );           // Remove Orders
    //unset( $menu_links['downloads'] );        // Disable Downloads
    //unset( $menu_links['edit-account'] );     // Remove Account details tab
    //unset( $menu_links['customer-logout'] );  // Remove Logout link
    
    return $menu_links;
}

BUT the big problem here is that this only removes the menu links in the frontend. I can still enter the unset endpoints via direct URL. So when i enter https://example.de/myaccount/[unset-endpoint] i am still abled to reach the content.

I found one way to redirect access via direct URL entry. I used the hook woocommerce_before_account_payment_methods which is located inside the payment methods template (/woocommerce/templates/myaccount/payment-methods.php) to redirect back to the dashboard:

function redirect_forbidden_access_account_endpoints(){
   wp_redirect(wc_get_account_endpoint_url('dashboard'));
}
add_action('woocommerce_before_account_payment_methods', 'redirect_forbidden_access_account_endpoints');

This works like a charme BUT only for the payment-methods endpoint. I tried this for the native downloads endpoint and a custom endpoint aswell without success.

So my question is: I there a solid solution to redirect URL access from specific disabled woocommerce endpoints to the dashboard?

Vijay Hardaha · Answer

You can do it using these 2 ways:

Put the Empty value in backend settings
Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Advanced then in Account endpoints input you can remove the values for the specific endpoints and save the empty values.

By this, you will not see the endpoint page or menu items on the account page and if you access the url, you'll see the homepage on the accessed url.
Unset the query vars
You can unset the query vars using the filter hook. https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/trunk/plugins/woocommerce/includes/class-wc-query.php#L85
in Line 85 you can find the function that has all the query vars.

https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/trunk/plugins/woocommerce/includes/class-wc-query.php#L232
And in line 232, you can find the function to get query vars, it has the filter as well. You can use the filter and unset the desired endpoint.

If you use this method, you'll have to unset the item from the nav menu items as well, You'll also need to save permalink settings again.

Then if you access the endpoint the url, you'll see the homepage on the accessed url.

In both cases, you won't see a 404 page.

Matthis Tebbe · Answer

Answer is: Yes there is! My hook was wrong. I used the wp hook now. Is that legal?

function redirect_forbidden_access(){
    $current_endpoint = WC()->query->get_current_endpoint();
    if($current_endpoint == "payment-methods" 
      || $current_endpoint == "add-payment-method"
      || $current_endpoint == "edit-payment-method" 
      || $current_endpoint == "[custom-endpoint]")
    {
        wp_redirect(wc_get_account_endpoint_url('dashboard'));
    }
}
add_action('wp', 'redirect_forbidden_access');

This does the trick.

Fully disable WooCommerce Endpoints

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