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Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce
A simple solution that might accidentally break your store.
HealthyDeclining
63/100
The plugin solves a real problem but often causes broken links and lacks support.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.0★
28 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-29%
Declining fast
33 → 24 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 29% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -29% in the last year
33/day a year ago→24/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayHide Categories and Products for WooCommerce is praised for easily hiding categories and filling a core WooCommerce gap, but many users report broken links, ineffective hiding, and lack of support.
What people like
- +Allows easy selection of categories to hide without coding×2
- +Works as intended and provides functionality missing from WooCommerce core×2
- +Backend interface functions correctly
Common complaints
- −Hidden categories lead to 404 pages, breaking direct links×2
- −Fails to hide selected categories; changes have no effect on the front end×3
- −Hides products from all sub-categories of a hidden category
- −Prevents adding products to hidden categories from the backend
- −Developer support is unresponsive
- −Conflicts with WooCommerce product analytics
- −No option to keep hidden categories/products accessible via direct link
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.12★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.00★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 28 total
Latest reviews · 28 analyzed
- 2026-05-07★★★★★Not very usefullireneirene
- 2026-04-29★★★★★Didn't do anythingautocraftmc1-shot
- 2026-04-29★★★★★Should do what?cloontje
- 2025-11-17★★★★★Simple but effectivev1eren
- 2025-08-06★★★★★Working good, thank youAlberto Hanna
- 2025-04-22★★★★★simple & works as intendedNightL
- 2025-02-06★★★★★Support not respondingizotop
- 2025-01-10★★★★★Did not workCreativeCollective
- 2024-06-21★★★★★Very helpfulluboslives
- 2024-05-15★★★★★Works very wellbepos
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
70
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
45
Prior 7-day baseline
51
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
353
Mean release-day peak (30d)
67
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+55.6%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
13%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.44
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
64%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.04 → 4.12★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered