{"id":338689,"date":"2026-07-12T08:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/fliix-category-product-hide-for-woocommerce\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T08:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:59:35","slug":"fliix-catalog-visibility-manager-for-woocommerce","status":"publish","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/fliix-catalog-visibility-manager-for-woocommerce\/","author":17922803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"version":"2.2.3","stable_tag":"2.2.3","tested":"7.0.1","requires":"5.8","requires_php":"8.1","requires_plugins":null,"header_name":"fliix Catalog Visibility Manager for WooCommerce","header_author":"fliix - Marc Werner","header_description":"Control which product categories and products appear on your WooCommerce storefront. 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It is <strong>not<\/strong> an official WooCommerce or Automattic product.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Credits<\/h4>\n\n<p>GPL refactor inspired by <strong>Hide Categories and Products for WooCommerce<\/strong> by <strong>N.O.U.S. Open Useful and Simple<\/strong> (contributors: bastho, leroysabrina, agencenous, enzomangiante). Existing hide settings from that plugin family remain compatible (<code>wchc_hide_product_cats<\/code>, <code>wchc_hide_products_from_cat<\/code>).<\/p>\n\n<h4>Translations<\/h4>\n\n<p>English (source) and German (<code>de_DE<\/code>) are included. 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