indextwo

I came here because I was looking for a solution to exactly this issue – excluding certain products by category.

It turns out there absolutely is a way to do it: by modifying the XML that gets generated and sent to Pinterest.

When generating the XML product feed, the plugin uses a filter for the XML of each product: pinterest_for_woocommerce_feed_item_xml

So I hooked into this filter and created an exclusion for any parent products that were in the category I wanted to exclude (since my site only has variations).

function vnmWooExtend_pinterestFilterItem($xml, $product) {
	// I'm only using variation products, so I check if the current product has a parent, as its only the parent that actually belongs to a given category

	$parentProduct = wc_get_product($product->get_parent_id());

	// Make sure it exists & isn't an error

	if ($parentProduct && !is_wp_error($parentProduct)) {
		//	Term ID 123 = The category I want to exclude: so if a product is in category 123, then return nothing to the feed

		if (has_term(123, 'product_cat', $product->get_parent_id())) {
			return '';
		}
	}

	return $xml;
}

add_filter('pinterest_for_woocommerce_feed_item_xml', 'vnmWooExtend_pinterestFilterItem', 10, 2);

To do the same for simple products, simply remove the check for get_parent_id() and change the conditional to if (has_term(123, 'product_cat', $product->get_id()))

Do note that the feed is only generated once a day (you can see when by looking at the action scheduler), so you may have to wait for it to be generated, but after that, you’re good to go.

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

I came here to say the exact same thing. Not only is it wildly intrusive on every. single. page. of wp-admin in all client sites with Yoast installed, but it’s also impossible to dismiss. The little X in the corner doesn’t register a closing click; it just acts as if I’d clicked on the banner (at least in FF 70). So I have no way of dismissing it, despite several clients complaining about it.

I was hoping to find a filter but (obviously) they didn’t put one in. So there are 3 4 ways of dealing with this:

1. Add this filter:

function vnmFunc_removeYoastAds() {
	WPSEO_Options::set('bf_banner_2019_dismissed', true);
}

add_action('admin_init', 'vnmFunc_removeYoastAds');

This will immediately set the dismissed trigger of the banner so that it won’t even try to appear again (that is, until the next time Yoast updates and adds a Christmas sale banner)

2. Add ?yst_dismiss_bf=1 to the end of the /wp-admin/ URL – this has the same effect as adding the filter.

3. Implement xsonic’s CSS suggestion. Arguably this will hide it for as long as Yoast use the same class to display their ads; however I don’t know if they’re also adding tracking via the images (and my guess is they most likely are).

4. Uninstall Yoast. And I won’t be at all surprised if this is what a lot of people end up doing.

For shame, Yoast. This is weak af.