---
title: "How to Disable Delivery Dates for Specific Product Categories"
source: "https://docs.nexcess.com/software/kadence/iconic/delivery-slots/disable-delivery-dates-for-categories/"
description: "With this code snippet, you can disable certain delivery dates when some products from a category are in the cart. Here's an example of how this might work: If…"
vertical: "Software"
area: "Delivery Slots"
date: "2022-11-22"
last_modified: "2022-11-22"
---

# How to Disable Delivery Dates for Specific Product Categories

With this code snippet, you can disable certain delivery dates when some products from a category are in the cart.

**Here’s an example of how this might work:**

 If you have an online cake store, you might already know in advance that you will not be able to prepare cakes on 12/24/2022 and 12/25/2022. So you would want to prevent customers from selecting these dates when they have products from the ‘cake’ category in their cart.

**If this is something you need for your store, you can accomplish it with the code snippet below:**

Please replace ‘cake’ with the category of your choice in line number 13. You can add this code snippet to functions.php of your child theme or use the [Code Snippet](https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/) plugin.

```
<?php
/**
 * Iconic WDS - Set specific dates for a product category.
 *
 * @param array $dates
 * @param string $format
 * @param bool $ignore_slots
 *
 * @return array
 */
function iconic_wds_disable_dates_for_category( $dates, $format, $ignore_slots ) {
	// @todo replace 'cake' with your category.
	if ( ! iconic_check_for_cart_item_in_category( array( 'cake' ) ) || 'array' === $format ) {
		return $dates;
	}

	$disable_dates = array(
		'2022/12/24',
		'2022/12/25',
	);

	$disable_dates_formatted = array();

	foreach ( $disable_dates as $disable_date ) {
		$disable_dates_formatted[] = date_i18n( $format, strtotime( $disable_date ) );
	}

	foreach ( $dates as $index => $date ) {
		if ( in_array( $date, $disable_dates_formatted, true ) ) {
			unset( $dates[ $index ] );
		}
	}

	return array_values( $dates );
}

add_filter( 'iconic_wds_available_dates', 'iconic_wds_disable_dates_for_category', 10, 3 );

/**
 * Check cart for product in category.
 *
 * @param array $categories Categories.
 *
 * @return bool
 */
function iconic_check_for_cart_item_in_category( $categories = array() ) {
	if ( empty( $categories ) || empty( WC()->cart ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	// Set our flag to be false until we find a product in that category.
	$has_item = false;

	// Check each cart item for our category.
	foreach ( WC()->cart->get_cart() as $cart_item_key => $cart_item ) {
		$product    = $cart_item['data'];
		$product_id = $product->is_type( 'variation' ) ? $product->get_parent_id() : $product->get_id();

		if ( has_term( $categories, 'product_cat', $product_id ) ) {
			$has_item = true;

			// Break because we only need one "true" to matter here.
			break;
		}
	}

	return $has_item;
}
```