<p>WooCommerce Hide Variations by User Roles extension enables you to manage the visibility of product variations based on user roles. Instead of keeping B2B variations visible for all, you can choose to only display them to B2B customers and other relevant user roles.</p>
<h2><strong>Features</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Hide Variations by User Roles</li>
<li>Completely hide or make variations un-selectable</li>
<li>Works with all popular user-role-editor plugins</li>
</ul>
<h3>Variations visibility options</h3>
<p>You can manage variation visibility for each variation under Product edit sheet > Variations from the backend. You can completely hide the variations based on user roles or keep them visible but un-selectable.</p>
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<p><strong>How the variations visibility change would show on the frontend</strong></p>
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<h3>FAQs</h3>
<p><strong>Can we hide the entire product as well?</strong></p>
<p>The extension only hides variations, if you need to hide entire products. Please see our <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/products-visibility-by-user-roles/">Products Visibility By User Roles</a> extension.</p>
<p><strong>Can we hide the entire attribute? Like, hide XL from all products?</strong></p>
<p>Unfortunately, this is not possible to hide the entire attribute or its variation from all products at once.</p>

Hide Variations by User Roles

<p>Hide individual product variations by user roles.</p>

<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li><strong><strong>Add multiple rules to create separate groups of linked products</strong></strong></li>
<li><strong><strong>Link the products by their attributes such as color, size, brands, etc.</strong></strong></li>
<li><strong><strong>Redirect users to a single variation page upon clicking on the variation link</strong></strong></li>
<li><strong><strong>Display variations like swatches</strong></strong></li>
<li><strong><strong>Option to display variations as texts or images</strong></strong></li>
<li><strong><strong>Link specific products, as well as categories</strong></strong></li>
<li><strong><strong>Option to blur the out-of-stock product variations</strong></strong></li>
<li><strong><strong>Open variation page on the same tab or next tab when user clicks on it</strong></strong></li>
<li><strong><strong>Customize variation button colors such as background, padding, border, and text</strong></strong></li>
<li><strong><strong>Displays the live preview of customization settings</strong></strong></li>
</ul>
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<h2>Add Separate Products Linked by Variations</h2>
<p>The <strong>Products Linked by Variations for WooCommerce</strong> extension lets you create separate products, rather than adding variations, and links these products with each other by their attributes. It is a terrific way to showcase variations on the product page where each variation has a separate product page. You can also add multiple groups of linked products. You can link specific products by variations and categories. You have the option to display variation images or text on product pages.</p>
<p>Enable images to highlight variations links like swatches. Customers can access any variation by clicking on each variation link. You can also blur the variations which are out of stock. There are options to display variations on the same tab or on a new tab. This extension also allows you to customize the variation buttons such as border, background, padding, and text color and see the settings in a live preview before saving it.</p>
<h2>Features Details</h2>
<h3><strong>Redirect customers to a separate variation page</strong></h3>
<p>As you can create a separate product page for each variation, our extension redirects customers to a single variation page when they click the variations displayed on product pages.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9032161" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ezgif.com-gif-maker5.gif" alt="woocommerce product linked variations" width="980" height="551" /></p>
<h3><strong>Link products by attributes</strong></h3>
<p>You don’t have to create product variations; you can create separate products for each variation and link them by attributes such as color, size, brands, etc. to show as variations on the product page.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734004100412" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Link-products-by-attributes.png" alt="WooCommerce products linked by variaitons plugin" width="980" height="482" /></p>
<h3><strong>Display variations like swatches</strong></h3>
<p><strong>The Product Linked by Variations for WooCommerce</strong> extension displays variation pages like swatches on product pages, showing them as an image or text form.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734004100416" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Display-variations-like-swatches.png" alt="WooCommerce products linked by variaitons plugin" width="980" height="493" /></p>
<h3><strong>Block out-of-stock products</strong></h3>
<p>Automatically block the out-of-stock products and does not allow customers click on them and visit the out of stocked variation page.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734004100420" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Block-out-of-stock-products.png" alt="WooCommerce products linked by variaitons plugin" width="980" height="483" /></p>
<h3><strong>Add multiple groups</strong></h3>
<p>You can add multiple groups to create separate groups of linked products.</p>
<h3><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734004100423" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Add-multiple-groups.png" alt="WooCommerce products linked by variaitons plugin" width="980" height="423" /></h3>
<h3><strong>Showcase variation links as a text or image</strong></h3>
<p>This extension provides you the option to display variation links as text or images on product pages.</p>
<h3><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734004100426" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Showcase-variation-links-as-a-text-or-image.png" alt="WooCommerce products linked by variaitons plugin" width="980" height="482" /></h3>
<h3><strong>Link products or categories</strong></h3>
<p>With the <strong>Product Linked by Variations for WooCommerce</strong> extension, you can link specific products and categories.</p>
<h3><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734004100429" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Link-products-or-categories.png" alt="WooCommerce products linked by variaitons plugin" width="980" height="476" /></h3>
<h3><strong>Customize variation buttons</strong></h3>
<p>The extension lets you customize variation button colors including their backgrounds, borders, and text.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734004100430" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Customize-variation-buttons.png" alt="WooCommerce products linked by variaitons plugin" width="980" height="433" /></p>
<h2><strong>Advantages</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Enhances the user experience as customers can easily access individual variation pages from product pages</li>
<li>Allows store owners to create a separate product page for each variation and enhance the store’s catalog</li>
<li>Customers get accurate results when searching shop pages</li>
<li>It makes it easy for customers to buy the right products when all the variations are visible on an individual product page with images</li>
<li>Shows customers unique descriptions of each variation and helps them make informed purchasing decisions</li>
</ul>

Products Linked by Variations

<p>Link products by their variations to provide your shoppers easy access to similar products right from the product page.</p>

Hide Variations by User Roles vs Products Linked by Variations