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Hide Shop Categories for Woocommerce

Hide Shop Categories for Woocommerce is a WordPress plugin to hide categories and subcategories from the shop.

By swinaallen·Shop·Free
5(2 reviews)
·60 active installs·Updated 7 years ago
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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.

5/52 reviews
60active installs
2.2K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018

Overview

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.

Features

  • Disable/Enable categories from Woocommerce directly from the Category manager (Products->Categories)

Requirements

Woocommerce plugin version: ^3.4

Usage

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.

Release 1.0

Initial release.

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Ratings & Reviews

52 reviews
5 ★
2
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Compatibility

WordPress4.9.1+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29
PHP5.6+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Contributors

swinaallenswinaallen
Plugin Info
Version
1.0
Last Updated
Nov 29, 2018
WP Requires
4.9.1+
Tested Up To
4.9.29
PHP Requires
5.6+
Active Installs
60
Downloads
2.2K+
Added
Nov 29, 2018
Business
Free

Tags

shopwoocommerceshop categoriesproduct categories

Developer

S
swinaallen
3 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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