How to disable product image thumbnails for woocommerce gallery?

Question

I work on slider for woocommerce product gallery and I don't use/need the generated thumbnails, because I use "dots" for navigation and I want to hide/unload the generated thumbnails by woocommerce gallery.

Firstly, I put this in my theme functions.php file:

remove_theme_support( 'wc-product-gallery-slider' );

And actually, I just put "display:none" in my css file and I make this for the product-thumbnails.php :

// Note: `wc_get_gallery_image_html` was added in WC 3.3.2 and did not exist prior. This check protects against theme overrides being used on older versions of WC.
if ( ! function_exists( 'wc_get_gallery_image_html' ) ) {
    return;
}

global $post, $product;

$attachment_ids = $product->get_gallery_image_ids();

if ( $attachment_ids && $product->get_image_id() ) { ?>

<div class="slider product-responsive-thumbnail" id="product_thumbnail_<?php echo esc_attr( $post->ID ); ?>">
    <?php foreach ( $attachment_ids as $attachment_id ) { ?>
        <div class="thumbnail-wrapper">
        <?php echo apply_filters( 'woocommerce_single_product_image_thumbnail_html', wc_get_gallery_image_html( $attachment_id ), $attachment_id ); // phpcs:disable WordPress.XSS.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped ?>
        </div>
    <?php
    } ?>
</div>
<?php
}
?>

I would like to disable the generation of thumbnails and its display completely to optimize the loading of my page!

I know that I can totally delete the contents of the file "produtc-thumbnails.php" but it is a bit raw method and I would like to know if this is possible with another less raw method

Answer 1

As @7uc1f3r suggested to me,

First simple solution. Mask in the woocommerce-general.css file like this:

.woocommerce div.product div.images .flex-control-thumbs {
    overflow: hidden;
    zoom: 1;
    margin: 0;
    padding:0;
    display:none; /* this hide the thumbnails */
}

Second solution, put " false " in the product-thumbnails.php

if ( ! function_exists( 'wc_get_gallery_image_html' ) ) {
    return;
}

global $post, $product;

$attachment_ids = false; // This disable the thumbnails

And voilà, now it's up to you to choose the method you want to keep.