CREATE A PRIVATE WOOCOMMERCE STORE

The WooCommerce Private Store plugin password protects all the pages within your WooCommerce online store. The rest of your WordPress site remains public – e.g. your homepage and other pages. However the WooCommerce elements – your main Shop page, products, categories, product tag archives and the cart and checkout are password protected and hidden from search engines.

Only if you want them to! If you like, you can link to your private store from the menu or anywhere else on your public website (e.g. a ‘Wholesale Login’ link in the header). When people click it, they will be taken to the WooCommerce login page where they can enter a password.

Or alternatively, you can keep your WooCommerce store completely hidden with no public links to it. The only way people will know it exists is if you give them the link.

You can make WooCommerce private by activating the plugin and setting 1 or more passwords. All WooCommerce pages will be protected. Customers must enter a correct password to unlock the private WooCommerce store. Customers only need to enter the password once to access the entire store.

No – WooCommerce Private Store protects your entire store. Once customers unlock it by entering a correct password, they will have access to your whole WooCommerce shop.

To create user-specific private areas with different products for each user, you can use our other plugin WooCommerce Protected Categories. This lets you create a separate protected category for each user.

Yes, the WooCommerce Private Store plugin hides all parts of your online shop from search engines and the WordPress search on your site. This includes your shop page, product pages, category pages, tag archives etc.

The WooCommerce Private Store plugin hides your entire shop (but not your normal WordPress pages and posts). To create separate public and private areas in WooCommerce, you’ll need our WooCommerce Protected Categories plugin instead.

We have tested WooCommerce Private Store with a range of free and premium themes and are confident it will work with your theme. If you have any problems (e.g. a cart icon showing in the header), get in touch and we will be happy to add further support for your theme.

The WooCommerce Private Store plugin is 100% certified as being compatible with WPML, the world’s leading WordPress multilingual plugin. This makes it easy for you to translate it into other languages.

Your plugin purchase comes backed by our service. We work hard to continually add new features, important security updates, and provide customer support.

When you buy WooCommerce Private Store, you can choose whether to purchase an annual or lifetime license:

• The annual subscription ensures we can continue improving the plugin and supporting you long-term. You’ll be charged automatically once a year, and we’ll remind you before this happens. You can, of course, cancel any time. If your license expires, you can keep using the plugin but won’t receive any more support or updates.
• The lifetime license will be valid forever and will never expire or need renewing.

This gives you a choice of whether to pay a smaller amount each year, or make a one-off payment for life. Our service and commitment to you are the same either way.

WooCommerce Private Store is fully tested with the latest versions of WordPress and WooCommerce. We always recommend running the most up-to-date version, but we also support older installations:

WooCommerce – 2.6 and up (tested to 3.6.2)
WordPress – 4.4 and up (tested to 5.2)
PHP – 5.3 and up (PHP 7.3 compatible)