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Protection rules for multiple categories or protection types

WooCommerce Protected Categories lets you protect categories by password, by restricting them to specific roles or users. The simplest way...

Can I automatically unlock a protected category for logged in users?

Our WooCommerce Protected Categories and Password Protected Categories plugins let you hide specific categories on your WordPress website so that only authorized people...

What happens if someone clicks on a direct link to a protected product?

If an unauthorized user clicks on a direct link to a product in a protected WooCommerce category - for example...

How can I change where users are redirected after logging into a category?

If you're using the WooCommerce Protected Categories plugin, then here are some tips to control where users are redirected after...

How can I logout of a password protected category?

The password protected category plugin doesn't have an option to log out. Instead, when a user enters the password to...

Can I expire people's access to a protected area?

By default, our WooCommerce Protected Categories, WooCommerce Private Store and Password Protected Categories plugins give people permanent access to your protected...

How to change the password for a WooCommerce category

You can change the password for a protected category as follows: Go to Products → Product Categories. Click on a...

Can I hide my public store from users logged into a protected WooCommerce category?

If you're using our WooCommerce Protected Categories plugin to create a hidden area within your WooCommerce store (e.g. a wholesale...

Will my protected WooCommerce categories & products be visible in search engines?

WooCommerce Protected Categories does not prevent search engines from accessing your categories or their products, although you can make it unlikely that...

Can I protect normal WordPress pages as well as product categories?

Some of our WooCommerce Protected Categories customers want to protect other pages on their website in the same way as...

Using WPML to translate WooCommerce Protected Categories

WooCommerce Protected Categories is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create private, hidden product areas within a WooCommerce online...

Can I protect files, images and PDF's attached to protected categories?

If you're using the WooCommerce Protected Categories or Password Protected Categories plugins, then they will protect your category pages and...

How do protected categories look in my RSS feed?

If you're using our Password Protected Categories or WooCommerce Protected Categories plugins, then you might want to know how the...

Can you customize the plugin for me?

Our standard plugin support covers helping you to use the plugin as it was intended. If you're interested in customizing...

Where can I find the plugin changelog?

We publish a detailed changelog showing the revision history for each of our plugins. This includes details of the changes...

Is the plugin compatible with Gutenberg?

All of Barn2's WordPress plugins are compatible with Gutenberg, WordPress' new editor. Here are full instructions on how to use...

Is there a maximum number of passwords?

Our WooCommerce Protected Categories, WooCommerce Private Store and Password Protected Categories provide two ways to protect areas of your WordPress...

Can I use WooCommerce Protected Categories to hide my entire store?

The WooCommerce Protected Categories plugin is designed to hide or protect specific areas within your WooCommerce store, or to show...

How to create better store layouts with WooCommerce Protected Categories & Private Store

The WooCommerce Protected Categories and WooCommerce Private Store plugins restrict access to your store, but they don't change the layouts of...

Where can I read reviews or leave my own review?

We love hearing what people think of our WordPress plugins. Each plugin has its own reviews page where you can...

Supported themes

We test our plugins regularly against the latest WordPress themes, and aim to support as many themes as possible. However,...

Translating WooCommerce Protected Categories into other languages

WooCommerce Protected Categories works with most WordPress multilingual plugins, including Weglot, TranslatePress and WPML. You can also create your own...

Are categories protected when people access the store through the REST API?

When you use the WooCommerce Protected Categories plugin, you can restrict access to product categories so that only people with...

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