This free WooCommerce extension permits you to hide categories on your shops main page. For this you have to save the categories with ‘,’ seperated in woocommerce > settings > products tab section. In order for this to work you have to have Categories displayed. This can be set via Customizer. Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Product Catalog. “Choose what to display on the main shop page.” Select Show categories as seen in the Screenshot below. Additional Information For users who has a different/custom page for their shop you can edit the wc-hide-categories.php file Find line # 127 and remove // //$mwd_opt4 = in_array( 'product_cat', $taxonomies ) && ! is_admin() && is_page('YOUR_PAGE_SLUG'), Then find line #129 /*|| $mwd_opt4*/ Change to || $mwd_opt4 To remove products from those categories find line 160 // Uncomment the function below if you also want those products hidden /* add_action( 'woocommerce_product_query', 'mwd_hwcosp_remove_product_in_cat' ); function mwd_hwcosp_remove_product_in_cat( $q ) { //hwcosp_global is the databse row entry $opt_terms = get_option('hwcosp_global'); // Processes our users data to the way we want it from above $data = mwd_hwcosp_comma_separated_to_array($opt_terms); $tax_query = (array) $q->get('tax_query'); $tax_query[] = array( 'taxonomy' => 'product_cat', 'field' => 'slug', 'terms' => $data, // Set Category Slug which products not show on the shop and Archieve page. 'operator' => 'NOT IN' ); $q->set( 'tax_query', $tax_query ); } */ The code is well documented so its easy to find what part you are looking for If you have any question please ask in the support forum, Thanks