Katalog Visibility for WooCommerce

Katalog Visibility for WooCommerce gives store owners granular control over which product categories appear on the main Shop page — without affecting visibility anywhere else on the site.

Products in hidden categories remain fully accessible through:

• Their own category archive pages (e.g. /product-category/wholesale/ )

• Direct product URLs

• Search results (configurable)

• Cart, checkout, and all other WooCommerce pages

Use Cases

• Wholesale / trade-only products — keep them off the public Shop page but accessible via direct links shared with trade customers.

• Coming soon collections — prepare categories ahead of launch without exposing them to casual shoppers.

• Funnel-based selling — drive traffic to specific landing/category pages instead of the Shop page.

• Members-only products — pair with the developer filter to show/hide categories based on user role.

Features

• Multi-select category picker — searchable Select2 dropdown listing all product categories including nested subcategories.

• Selective hiding — only the main Shop page is affected; category archives always show all their products.

• Optional search exclusion — toggle to also hide selected categories from frontend search results.

• Optional tag archive exclusion — toggle to also hide selected categories from product tag archive pages.

• Per-product override — “Force show on Shop page” checkbox on individual products to override category-level hiding.

• Debug logging — enable debug mode to log excluded category and product IDs to WooCommerce Status Logs.

• Developer-friendly — wsvc_hidden_categories filter allows programmatic control (e.g. role-based visibility).

• Safe query merging — appends to existing tax_query without overriding other plugins’ filters.

• HPOS compatible — fully compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.

• Lightweight — no external dependencies, no custom database tables, no frontend assets.

Developer Filter Example

Show hidden categories to wholesale users:

add_filter( 'wsvc_hidden_categories', function ( $hidden ) { if ( current_user_can( 'wholesale_customer' ) ) { $wholesale = get_term_by( 'slug', 'wholesale', 'product_cat' ); if ( $wholesale ) { $hidden = array_diff( $hidden, array( $wholesale->term_id ) ); } } return $hidden; } );