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How Do I Make My WooCommerce Shop Private?

Last updated on January 16, 2023 @ 3:38 pm

There are a few different ways that you can make your WooCommerce shop private. One way is to password protect your entire WooCommerce shop. This can be done by going to the “Settings” tab in your WordPress admin panel, and then selecting the “Reading” option. From here, you will want to check the box that says “Password protect my blog” and then enter a password. Once you have done this, save your changes and your WooCommerce shop will now be password protected.

Another way that you can make your WooCommerce shop private is by making only certain pages or products private. To do this, you will need to edit the individual pages or products that you want to keep private. On the “Edit Page” screen, there is an option in the “Publish” meta box called “Visibility”.

By default, this is set to “Public” but you can change it to “Password Protected” or “Private”. If you select “Password Protected”, you will need to enter a password for that page. If you select “Private”, only logged in users will be able to view that page.

Making products private is a little bit different than making pages private. On the “Edit Product” screen, there is an option in the “Publish” meta box called “Catalog Visibility”. By default, this is set to “Public” but you can change it to “Searchable”, “Hidden”, or “Catalog/Search Excluded”.

If you select “Searchable”, the product will be searchable but not visible in the shop page. If you select “Hidden”, the product will not be searchable or visible in the shop page. And if you select “Catalog/Search Excluded”, the product will not show up in any search results on your site.

So those are a few different ways that you can make your WooCommerce shop private.

Dale Leydon

Dale Leydon

Sysadmin turned Javascript developer. Owner of 20+ apps graveyard, and a couple of successful ones.