Hidden categories break their URLs and product links
Hiding a WooCommerce category makes its category page and linked product URLs return not found.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 5 January 2024 · last reported 27 November 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners who hide categories for out-of-stock lines, restricted ranges, or internal use want the category page and the product links under it to keep working.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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