Hidden discontinued products break category lists and counts
Hiding discontinued products drops subcategories from category pages and gives wrong product counts on shop tiles.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 16 January 2024 · last reported 30 January 2026
What's going wrong
Several store owners report that when discontinued products are hidden from the catalogue, category pages lose subcategories and parent categories show fewer children than they should.
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 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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