Are you looking to hide some products from the visitors on your WooCommerce store?
There can be many reasons for hiding products from your customers. Some products might be discontinued temporarily but will be available in the future, products that need to be manually added later on in the sales channel and many such reasons.
In this article, we are going to show how to hide products in your WooCommerce store. We will achieve this without the use of any plugins.
- Login to your admin dashboard and edit the product you want to hide.
- In the Publish box on the right hand side you will find a Catalog visibility option. Click on the Edit button next to it.
- Since we want to hide the product, select the Hidden option and click on the OK button.
- Now all you have to do is click on the Update button. Once done, the product will be hidden from your store listings.
Hide the products in bulk
If there are more than one or two products to hide then it’s best to change their visibility in bulk. This can be done by visiting the Products -> All Products page from your admin dashboard.
Select the products you want to hide. In the Bulk actions drop down menu, select the Edit option and click on the Apply button.
Find the Visibility drop down menu and select the Hidden option.
Once done, click on the Update button. All the products are now hidden from your WooCommerce store.
Conclusion
Many times hiding a product is better than completely deleting it. Hiding a product will also prevent any accidental orders from the customers. With the help of the above steps you can easily hide a product or multiple products without using any plugin.