Hide Show By Popularity on Product Category Page?

Hey @ananddevops – I’m not sure I entirely follow what you’re trying to do.

First of all, if you use Product Vendors, please contact us at WooCommerce.com > My Account > Tickets. We will be able to help you further there.

Second, if you’re trying to hide the dropdown based on the quantity in a category, then you’d need some custom PHP or CSS.

With PHP, you need to customize the snippet that Business Bloomer has created here:

/**
* @snippet Remove "Default Sorting" Dropdown @ StoreFront Shop & Archive Pages
* @how-to Watch tutorial @ https://businessbloomer.com/?p=19055
* @source https://businessbloomer.com/?p=401
* @author Rodolfo Melogli
* @compatible Woo 3.4.3
*/
 
add_action( 'init', 'bbloomer_delay_remove' );
 
function bbloomer_delay_remove() {
    remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_catalog_ordering', 10 );
    remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_catalog_ordering', 10 );
}

This can be also fixed with some custom CSS. Under Customize > Additional CSS, you can add the following code. Note that the term-clothing aspect will need to be replaced by the specific category. See the screenshot below.
 

/* Hide sorting option on a category */

.term-clothing .woocommerce-ordering {
    display: none;
}

Screenshot of where to find the category filter:

Link to image: http://cld.wthms.co/c6xmQ3
 
If you’d like to learn more about CSS, I highly recommend using the free tutorials at w3schools. Here, you can find the basics of selectors (how to target the right element on the page), and properties (how to change the element on the page).

Hey,

To expand upon @jobthomas’ answer above, I decided to write a small snippet to hide the duplicated sorting information / links for all categories based on how many products are in the category:

 add_action( 'wp', 'jk_remove_bottom_duplicate_sorting' );

 function jk_remove_bottom_duplicate_sorting() {
	 global $wp_query;
	 $count = absint( $wp_query->get_queried_object()->count );

	 if ( '4' > $count ) {
		 remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop', 'storefront_sorting_wrapper', 9 );
		 remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_catalog_ordering', 10 );
		 remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_result_count', 20 );
		 remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_pagination', 30 );
		 remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop', 'storefront_sorting_wrapper_close', 31 );
	 }
 }

In this example, if there are fewer than 4 products in a category only one group of sorting & ordering info / links will be displayed. Just change that 4 to another value if you prefer.

James
Designer @ Automattic