[Frontend Snippets] Exclude products from a particular category on the shop page

wc-exclude-product-category-from-shop-page.php

/**
 * Exclude products from a particular category on the shop page
 */
function custom_pre_get_posts_query( $q ) {

    $tax_query = (array) $q->get( 'tax_query' );

    $tax_query[] = array(
           'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
           'field' => 'slug',
           'terms' => array( 'clothing' ), // Don't display products in the clothing category on the shop page.
           'operator' => 'NOT IN'
    );


    $q->set( 'tax_query', $tax_query );

}
add_action( 'woocommerce_product_query', 'custom_pre_get_posts_query' );  

Is it possible to still make the products show when you specifically choose the cateogry from the category archive?

Works great! Thank you!

Tags not working when this code is added to the product. Need a better solution.

I added this to functions.php but products under the clothing category still show on the shop page.

If you still want to hide products from the shop but still show products on the category archive page, use this snippet instead:

https://gist.github.com/neilgee/37a7392af2fb699178a9b9c1fca811b7#file-hide-prod-cat-woo-php

Is there also an option to hide/exclude specific product categories from the whole frontend?

hello, I have a Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file that appears after adding the function in the functions.php file.thank you.