Removing functions from Woocommerce hooks

Question

This will probably open a door for me as there's something I'm missing so a WooCommerce 101 please;

part of the WooCommerce template archive-product.php contains the code;

    <?php
            /**
             * woocommerce_before_shop_loop hook.
             *
             * @hooked woocommerce_result_count - 20
             * @hooked woocommerce_catalog_ordering - 30
             */
            do_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop' );
        ?>

From this, and reading the documentation, it implies that this;

remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_result_count', 20 );

should remove the result count from the product categories returned. Only it doesn't.

What's wrong?

Answer 1

I was going to say you should read the documentation but it is leaving an important part out.

remove_action() cannot be called directly and must, itself, be added to an action hook. The action hook needs to come before the action being removed. In this case I would just use the same hook, but an earlier priority (default is 10, I've used 1)

function so_38878702_remove_hook(){
   remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_result_count', 20 );
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'so_38878702_remove_hook', 1 );