Igor Radovanov

<p>Product Roles Manager for WooCommerce allows you to control which products are visible to specific user roles. Perfect for wholesale stores, membership sites, or any WooCommerce store that needs role-based product access.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Restrict simple products to specific user roles</li>
<li>Restrict product variations individually by user role</li>
<li>Works with WooCommerce product queries, widgets, and shortcodes</li>
<li>Compatible with WooCommerce Blocks and REST API</li>
<li>Automatically hides restricted products from related products, upsells, and cross-sells</li>
<li>Redirects unauthorized users to 404 when accessing restricted products directly</li>
<li>Settings page with import/export functionality</li>
<li>Lightweight and performance-optimized with caching</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Wholesale Stores – Show wholesale-only products to users with a wholesale role</li>
<li>Membership Sites – Display exclusive products to premium members only</li>
<li>B2B Stores – Restrict certain products to registered business customers</li>
<li>Staff Discounts – Show staff-only products to employees</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<h4>Simple Products</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to Products then Edit Product</li>
<li>Scroll to the Product Data section</li>
<li>In the General tab, find Product Visibility by Role</li>
<li>Select the user roles that should see this product</li>
<li>Leave empty to show the product to all users</li>
</ol>
<h4>Variable Products</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to Products then Edit Product</li>
<li>Navigate to the Variations tab</li>
<li>Expand any variation</li>
<li>Find Variation Visibility by Role</li>
<li>Select the user roles that should see this variation</li>
<li>Leave empty to show the variation to all users</li>
</ol>
<h4>Plugin Settings</h4>
<p>Navigate to WooCommerce then Product Roles Manager to access:</p>
<ul>
<li>Global settings configuration</li>
<li>Export settings to JSON file</li>
<li>Import settings from JSON file</li>
<li>Delete all plugin data</li>
</ul>


Product Roles Manager for WooCommerce

Control WooCommerce product visibility based on user roles. Restrict products and variations to specific user roles.

robertoiacono

<p><strong>Hide Products by User Role for WooCommerce</strong> gives store owners complete control over product visibility based on WordPress user roles — including guests (unauthenticated visitors). Set global rules from the WooCommerce settings screen, or configure visibility per product and per variation, all without writing a line of code.</p>
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<p>Whether you run a B2B wholesale store, a membership site, or simply want to keep certain products away from guests, this plugin enforces visibility at the query level so hidden products never leak through search, archives, the REST API, or direct URL access.</p>
<h3>Why store owners choose this plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Run B2B and B2C from a single store</strong> — keep wholesale and retail catalogs side by side and show each audience only what they should see</li>
<li><strong>Protect member-only or exclusive products</strong> — restrict visibility to subscribers, members, or any custom role</li>
<li><strong>Increase catalog relevance</strong> — show each user role a curated product set and reduce catalog noise</li>
<li><strong>Block guest browsing</strong> — require an account before any product is visible, turning your shop into a private catalog</li>
<li><strong>Zero performance overhead</strong> — visibility is enforced at the WordPress/WooCommerce query level, not as post-load filtering</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<p><strong>Global visibility rules (WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Hide by User Roles)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Hide <strong>all products</strong> from a role with a single rule</li>
<li>Hide products by <strong>category</strong> or <strong>tag</strong> per role</li>
<li>Unlimited rules with drag-and-drop <strong>priority ordering</strong></li>
<li><strong>Duplicate</strong> existing rules to create variations quickly</li>
<li>Rule-count badge in the WooCommerce settings navigation</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Per-product and per-variation control</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Dedicated <strong>“Hide by Role”</strong> tab on every WooCommerce product edit screen</li>
<li>Select any combination of roles to hide that individual product from</li>
<li>Full support for <strong>variable products</strong>: set visibility separately on each variation</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Complete query coverage — hidden means truly hidden</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Shop page, category archives, and tag archives</li>
<li>WordPress and WooCommerce <strong>search results</strong></li>
<li><strong>FiboSearch</strong> (DGWT WooCommerce Ajax Search) compatibility</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce REST API</strong> (with block-editor edit-context exemption so admins can still select products)</li>
<li><strong>Single product page redirect</strong> — guests are sent to the login page; logged-in restricted users are sent to the shop</li>
<li><strong>Block themes</strong> — replaces the “No products found” block with a role-aware login or logout prompt</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Developer-friendly extensibility</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>20+ filters and actions covering every stage of the visibility pipeline</li>
<li>Inject runtime rules (subscription-based, time-limited) without touching plugin files</li>
<li>Add custom taxonomy targets, override redirect URLs, or map membership levels to roles</li>
<li>HPOS (High Performance Order Storage) compatible</li>
</ul>
<h3>Perfect for</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Wholesale / B2B stores</strong> — hide retail products from registered wholesalers, or hide wholesale products from regular customers</li>
<li><strong>Membership and subscription sites</strong> — restrict premium products to paying members</li>
<li><strong>Private catalogs</strong> — require an account before any product is shown</li>
<li><strong>Tiered product access</strong> — show different product sets to different customer segments</li>
</ul>


Hide Products by User Role for WooCommerce

Control WooCommerce product visibility by user role. Hide products, categories, and variations from guests or any role — no coding required.

Product Roles Manager for WooCommerce vs Hide Products by User Role for WooCommerce