WooCommerce Protected Categories lets you lock down product categories with passwords, user roles, or individual user access. Create private, wholesale, client-only, or members-only sections of your store, while keeping the rest public. It’s fast to set up, SEO-friendly, and works seamlessly with your existing WooCommerce catalog, menus, and navigation.
- Protect entire product categories with passwords, user roles, or specific users
- Create private, hidden, or members-only shop sections
- Support for wholesale, B2B, client galleries, and staff-only catalogs
- Show or hide protected categories from menus, widgets, and search
- Flexible login: category password pages or standard account login
- Granular control for parent and child categories
- Works with simple, variable, and downloadable products
- Compatible with WooCommerce shortcodes and Gutenberg blocks
- SEO-friendly: keep public products indexable while hiding private ones
- Customizable access messages and password forms
- Redirect customers after unlock for smooth shopping flow
- Multi-password support for shared access without accounts
- Lightning-fast setup with intuitive settings
- Works with most themes and popular WooCommerce extensions
- Developer-friendly hooks and filters for custom workflows