admin on January 11, 2019
If you want to pre-approve your customers (such as in a trade-only shop) then you might want to disable the visibility of pricing as the ability for visitors to buy your products.
Catalog Visibility Options
The Catalog Visibility Options plugin will do this and also let you choose which user roles can see products and product categories.
Therefore, if you want to take a category out of the shop, use the plugin to do that.
PHP code
Otherwise there is this code that I saw on Business Bloomer but the code was in the comments, and is from Jonathan from Inspired Earth
function custom_pre_get_posts_query( $q ) { $tax_query = (array) $q->get( 'tax_query' ); $tax_query[] = array( 'taxonomy' => 'product_cat', 'field' => 'slug', 'terms' => array( 'CATEGORY-TO-HIDE' ), // Don't display products in the this category on the shop page. 'operator' => 'NOT IN' ); $q->set( 'tax_query', $tax_query ); } add_action( 'woocommerce_product_query', 'custom_pre_get_posts_query' );
Where to put the code
I use the Code Snippets plugin (it’s in the WordPress repository) to contain snippets of php.