Description
TwinCart Hide Selected Categories & Products gives you control over your WooCommerce shop’s visibility. Hide specific products and categories from the frontend, keeping your catalog focused on what you want customers to see.
Features
- Global exclusions: select categories and products to hide from all visitors.
- Subcategories of a hidden category, and all products in them, are hidden too.
- Product search in the settings, using the standard WooCommerce product search field.
- Hidden items are removed from shop pages, category archives, search results, related products, up-sells, cross-sells, widgets, the [products] shortcode, navigation menus and sitemaps.
- Works with WooCommerce blocks: Product Collection, All Products, Product Categories and the Cart/Checkout blocks.
- Hidden products cannot be added to the cart, and are removed from carts that already contain them.
- Visitors who open a hidden product or category by direct URL are redirected to the shop page.
WC Compatibility
- HPOS Compatible: Yes
- Cart/Checkout Blocks Compatible: Yes
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/twincart-hide-selected-categories-productsdirectory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
- Configure settings under WooCommerce -> Settings -> Hide Categories/Products.
FAQ
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Does this plugin require WooCommerce?
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Yes. WooCommerce must be installed and active for this plugin to work.
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Hiding applies to all visitors of the storefront. The items stay available in the WordPress admin.
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WooCommerce removes them from the cart and shows a notice to the customer.
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Contributors & Developers
“TwinCart Hide Selected Categories & Products” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0 (2026-10-07)
- Initial release.
- Global category and product hiding, including subcategories.
- Hiding on shop queries, search results, related products, up-sells, cross-sells, widgets, shortcodes, blocks, the Store API, menus and sitemaps.
- Add-to-cart protection for hidden products.
- Direct URL access protection with redirect to the shop page.
- Declared compatibility with High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) and the Cart/Checkout blocks.
