WooCommerce Protected Categories is a powerful plugin that lets you lock down product categories with passwords, user roles, or specific users. Perfect for wholesale, B2B, members-only shops, private client areas, and hidden catalogs. Create segmented storefronts, control who sees what, and keep sensitive products out of public search and indexing—without complex setup.
- Protect entire product categories with passwords, user roles, or specific users
- Create multiple passwords per category for different customer groups
- Unlock child categories and all products automatically when parent is accessed
- Private, hidden categories that don’t appear in menus, widgets, or search
- Restrict visibility by logged-in roles (e.g., wholesale, VIP, distributors)
- Assign access to individual users for client-specific catalogs
- Customizable login/password pages with redirect to the correct category
- Supports simple, variable, and grouped products in protected categories
- Works with WooCommerce shop, archives, widgets, and shortcodes
- Exclude protected items from sitemap and search for better privacy
- SEO-friendly: keep public products indexed while hiding private ones
- Fast setup with intuitive settings; no coding required
- Compatible with popular themes, page builders, and caching plugins
- Granular control: mix public and protected categories in one store
- Ideal for wholesale pricing, member-only products, and client portals
