Hide Shop Categories for Woocommerce is a WordPress plugin to hide categories and subcategories from the shop.
As of April 2026, Hide Shop Categories for Woocommerce is a WordPress shop plugin with 60 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9.1+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WooCommerce.
With Hide Shop Categories for Woocommerce you can hide categories and subcategories from the shop page, category page and product page.
This can be useful if you want to temporarly hide some categories from your shop without the need to delete them.
When a category is disabled also the url of the category page (i.e. http://yourdomain.com/category/your_category_slug) returns a 404 error.
Woocommerce plugin version: ^3.4
From the admin backend click on Products->Categories. The column Disabled is added to the categories list. Mark the checkbox to disable, unmark to enable.
Initial release.
| WordPress | 4.9.1+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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