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Hide Products and Pages from the Public Storefront.

Hide WooCommerce products, pages, and categories from shop, search, and archives. Direct links can 404 or redirect. A role whitelist still sees them.

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Core Capabilities

  • Hide products from the public shop
  • Hide pages from guests
  • Hide a wholesale category from the shop
  • Redirect or hide old content
  • Grant access by user role

Surgical Storefront Control

Make products, pages, and posts invisible in your shop, search results, and archives.

Seamless User Experience

Hidden items disappear from the catalog the shopper browses. No ugly login-to-view messages or padlocks.

Powerful Role Whitelist

Grant access to specific user roles. Everyone else sees nothing. Administrators always see everything.

One Unified Dashboard

Manage your content visibility rules right next to your custom user roles in the WooDonkey dashboard.

Heavy memberships plugins when you just need to hide things.

A full memberships suite is slow, complex, and overkill if you just need to control visibility. They bloat your site and bury simple hide rules in a maze of settings. The WooDonkey Way: simple, powerful storefront visibility controls that are lightning-fast and easy to manage.

Simple rules for powerful storefront visibility control.

If you can say it, you can build it. ‘Hide the Wholesale category from guests.’ ‘Make this landing page visible only to logged-in Customers.’ It’s that straightforward.

Hide Products and Categories

Hide individual products, pages, and posts, or entire categories and tags from the public catalog.

Control Direct Links

Decide what happens if someone has a direct link to hidden content. Show a 404 error or redirect them to another page.

Works with Custom Roles

Create a custom user role, like ‘Wholesale’, then use Content Restrictions to build their private catalog.

Admin Preview

As a store administrator, you can always see and manage restricted content on the storefront.

Hidden means gone from the shop, not locked behind a vault.

The public catalog simply does not list the item. Shoppers who are allowed to see it still get a normal page, with no padlock chrome.

No Overlays or Popups

We don’t inject login modals or access-denied messages. The content is simply not there for unauthorized users.

Clean Catalog

Restricted items stay out of shop, search, and archives, so the public catalog stays focused.

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FAQ

Your restricted content remains completely hidden from public view across your WooCommerce shop, ensuring a tailored browsing experience for every visitor. The WooDonkey Companion plugin ensures that these items are excluded from search results, archives, related-product lists, and any custom product grids. This keeps your storefront clean and focused for your general shoppers, presenting only relevant products as shoppers browse the WooCommerce store. You define the rules in the WooDonkey dashboard, and only active rules are applied to your live store. This provides precise control over what your customers see, maintaining a professional and organized storefront.

You gain extensive control over your storefront’s visibility, allowing you to hide a wide range of content types and tailor your customer’s journey. This includes individual products, specific pages, and even blog posts from public view. Beyond single items, you can also restrict entire product categories, product tags, post categories, and post tags, giving you fine-tuned control over your inventory presentation. This flexibility helps you curate the exact shopping experience you want for different customer segments, ensuring only relevant content is displayed. This allows for highly customized storefront presentations, making your shop more effective for targeted audiences.

Store administrators always retain full visibility of all content, regardless of any restrictions you set, ensuring you maintain complete oversight. For other users, you control access through a specific role whitelist, granting access only to approved groups. Only visitors whose assigned roles are on this whitelist will be able to view the restricted products and pages, while logged-out visitors will never match the whitelist, ensuring content remains hidden from the general public. You can even use custom WooDonkey roles on the whitelist, allowing for specialized access like a private wholesale catalog. If you leave the whitelist empty, only administrators will see the restricted content.

When a visitor tries to reach restricted content using a direct link, you control their experience, ensuring a professional response. The WooDonkey Companion plugin can either show a standard 404 page, indicating the content is not found, or redirect them to a specific URL you define. This allows you to guide visitors to alternative pages or relevant information, preventing dead ends and improving navigation. If you do not set a redirect URL, the visitor receives a 404 page by default, maintaining a consistent user experience. This ensures a consistent and managed response for hidden content, keeping your site user-friendly and professional.

WooDonkey provides storefront visibility control, managing what shoppers see on your public WooCommerce store across shop, search, archives, related-product lists, and custom grids. It curates the browsing experience, but it does not provide hard security against determined attempts to access content. WooCommerce REST and API access remain fully functional, so external systems can still interact with your products. A shopper who knows a product’s ID could still add it to their cart, even if it’s hidden from the storefront. This distinction helps manage expectations about WooDonkey’s content control. Only enabled rules go live on the storefront through the WooDonkey Companion plugin.

The WooDonkey Companion plugin is required for implementing your content visibility rules directly on your WooCommerce storefront, acting as the bridge between your settings and your live shop. While you define and manage all your restriction rules within the WooDonkey dashboard, the Companion plugin actively applies these rules to your live store. It ensures that only enabled rules go into effect, controlling what shoppers see as they browse your products and pages. This separation allows for efficient rule management and reliable storefront execution, ensuring your content restrictions are always up-to-date and accurate for your customers.

You can effectively keep a wholesale catalog separate from your public shop using WooDonkey. Create custom WooDonkey roles for your wholesale customers and add these specific roles to your content’s whitelist. Only your designated wholesale buyers, logged in with their assigned roles, will then view and access the specialized catalog. General public shoppers will not see these wholesale products, maintaining a clear distinction between your customer segments. This allows you to offer specific products without cluttering your main storefront, as content restrictions only hide storefront visibility. Store administrators still see the catalog, and only enabled rules go live.

You can certainly try WooDonkey before making any commitment, ensuring it’s the right fit for your business. We offer a 14-day trial period, allowing you to explore all the features and see how it fits your needs without any obligation. During this trial, you also receive 100 AI credits to test out any AI-powered functionalities, giving you a full experience. The best part is that no credit card is required to start your trial, making it entirely free to get started. This allows you to experience the full benefits without any upfront investment, proving its value firsthand.