Disable WooCommerce Product Reviews

While it’s true that product reviews can be highly valuable for any ecommerce store, there are occasions where you simply don’t need them.

If you’re looking to disable product reviews from your WooCommerce store, the following two methods will help you do just that.

Stick around until the end of this article because we’ll be highlighting what you can use instead of product reviews to boost sales in your online store.

How to disable WooCommerce product reviews

Disable Reviews in the Settings

You can disable product reviews by turning them off in the settings. Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Products and uncheck Enable product reviews.

Disable Reviews Programmatically

For my demo sites, I use a multisite installation. To save myself setting this option every time, I just disable reviews globally for products in the theme settings. You can do this with a very simple code snippet.

Add this to your theme or child theme in the functions.php file, or using the Code Snippets plugin.

/**
 * Disable reviews.
 */
function iconic_disable_reviews() {
	remove_post_type_support( 'product', 'comments' );
}

add_action( 'init', 'iconic_disable_reviews' );

What to replace WooCommerce product reviews with

By disabling reviews in your WooCommerce store, you’re removing a potentially valuable asset. It’s well-known that product reviews can increase store sales because they add an element of social proof.

However, product reviews aren’t the only ‘social proof’ feature you can add. 

Instead, you could include:

• The ‘Frequently Bought Together’ feature commonly used by Amazon.
• ‘Customers Also Bought’ at the checkout.

By including both of these on your store, you can add a different element of social proof, without all the moderating and legwork of managing reviews.

What’s better, you can add both of these in just a few clicks with the social proof plugin, Iconic Sales Booster.