<h2>Stop Losing Customers to Dead Product Links</h2>
<p>Every deleted product leaves behind a trail of broken URLs – from Google search results, Pinterest pins, social media posts, and customer bookmarks. Without a redirect, those visitors hit a generic 404 error page and leave your store forever.</p>
<p><strong>Product 404 Redirects for WooCommerce</strong> automatically intercepts these dead-end URLs and sends visitors to the most relevant category page, turning lost traffic into browsing customers.</p>
<h3>Why You Need This Plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>SEO-Friendly 301 Redirects</strong> – Search engines transfer link equity to the category page instead of indexing dead URLs, protecting your search rankings.</li>
<li><strong>Intelligent Category Matching</strong> – Automatically picks the most specific, most populated category the product belonged to, so visitors land on a page full of relevant products.</li>
<li><strong>Zero Configuration</strong> – Install, activate, done. Works immediately on previously deleted products too.</li>
<li><strong>Proactive Mapping</strong> – Captures product-to-category relationships the moment a product is trashed or deleted, so even permanently removed products are covered.</li>
<li><strong>Visitor-Friendly Notice</strong> – A subtle, dismissible toast notification lets the customer know what happened and invites them to keep browsing.</li>
<li><strong>Dashboard Analytics</strong> – Track how many visitors you have rescued in real time: today, last 7 days, last 30 days, and all-time.</li>
<li><strong>Redirect Manager</strong> – View all saved redirect rules, monitor hit counts, and remove rules you no longer need.</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight</strong> – No external dependencies, no JavaScript frameworks, no bloat. A single tiny database query runs only on 404 pages.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li>A visitor clicks on an old link to a deleted product.</li>
<li>The plugin detects the 404 and looks up the product slug in its redirect map, the WordPress trash, and the slug history.</li>
<li>It issues a 301 redirect to the best-matching category page.</li>
<li>A small toast notification appears, letting the visitor know the original product is no longer available.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Fully Configurable</h3>
<p>Customize the notice text, auto-dismiss duration, and styling with your own CSS. Enable or disable the shop page fallback for products whose categories have also been deleted. Set log retention to control how long analytics data is kept. Everything is managed from a clean settings panel under <strong>WooCommerce > Product 404 Redirects</strong>.</p>
<h3>Built for Performance and Compatibility</h3>
<p>Product 404 Redirects adds zero overhead to normal page loads. It only activates on 404 responses, works seamlessly with all major caching plugins and CDNs, and is fully compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS).</p>

Product 404 Redirects

<p>Automatically redirects deleted WooCommerce product URLs to their category pages with SEO-friendly 301 redirects – rescuing lost visitors, preserving search rankings, and requiring zero configuration.</p>

<p><strong>The original WooCommerce catalog and pricing visibility tool.</strong></p>
<p>Not every store should show everything to everyone.</p>
<p>Whether you’re selling wholesale, managing restricted pricing, complying with MAP policies, or preparing a catalog before launch, you may need more control over what customers can see and do. Catalog Visibility Options gives you that control while continuing to use WooCommerce and your existing products.</p>
<h2>Control product, price, and purchasing visibility</h2>
<p>Decide exactly what different visitors can access throughout your store:</p>
<ul>
<li>Show or hide <strong>products</strong></li>
<li>Show or hide <strong>prices</strong></li>
<li>Enable or disable <strong>purchasing</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>You can run a fully public store, a private catalog, or a hybrid experience from the same WooCommerce installation.</p>
<h2>Flexible visibility rules</h2>
<p>Configure visibility based on the audience you want to reach:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>User roles</strong></li>
<li><strong>Specific users</strong></li>
<li><strong>User attributes and capabilities</strong></li>
<li><strong>Logged-in vs guest visitors</strong></li>
<li><strong>GeoLocation rules</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>This allows you to create different shopping and browsing experiences for different customers without duplicating products or managing multiple stores.</p>
<h2>Common use cases</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Wholesale / B2B stores</strong><br />
Only approved customers can view pricing or place orders.</li>
<li><strong>MAP pricing compliance</strong><br />
Hide prices publicly while still allowing approved or logged-in customers to access them.</li>
<li><strong>Private catalogs</strong><br />
Restrict products or categories so that only certain users or roles can see them.</li>
<li><strong>Geo-targeted visibility</strong><br />
Show or hide products, prices, or purchasing options based on customer location.</li>
<li><strong>Catalog mode / pre-launch stores</strong><br />
Display products without enabling cart and checkout functionality.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Key features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Hide <strong>products</strong>, <strong>prices</strong>, or <strong>Add to Cart</strong> functionality</li>
<li>Show pricing only to specific users or user roles</li>
<li>Restrict entire catalogs or selected products to authenticated users</li>
<li>Disable cart and checkout functionality when needed</li>
<li>Replace prices or purchase actions with custom content or messaging</li>
<li>Configure GeoLocation-based visibility rules</li>
<li>Works with your existing WooCommerce products and store setup</li>
</ul>
<h2>Summary</h2>
<ul>
<li>Control who sees your products</li>
<li>Control who sees your prices</li>
<li>Control who can purchase</li>
<li>Apply rules by user, role, attributes, or location</li>
</ul>

Catalog Visibility Options

<p>Control who sees prices—and who can buy—while keeping WooCommerce flexible for any business model. Hide prices and control purchasing options based on users, roles, and locations.</p>

Product 404 Redirects vs Catalog Visibility Options