Exclude a category from feed

Hi there @mrbeerheim

Exclude a category from feed

Is there already a way to do this?

Thank you for reaching out. Happy to help you with this!

First head to Products > All Products, and select the Export button up-top, above the product list.

From the Export Products screen, select the category which you wish to be excluded, along with “export custom meta?” checkbox, followed by the Generate CSV button (as showcased in the screenshot here).

In the resulting CSV file, feel free to change the status in the “Meta: _wc_gla_visibility” column values to “dont-sync-and-show“. The default values would be as showcased in the screenshot linked here.

Upon importing the CSV file, the products for that category should have the new sync setting applied.

Or are you (hopefully) planning to add this in the future?

Feel free to view and submit feature requests over here. This is the best place to suggest that this becomes one such feature within the plugin’s options.

I trust that points you in the right direction, but if you have more questions, let us know. We’re happy to help.

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, this fixes it, but it will not make future products in those categories be excluded from google sync. So I will have to do this over and over again when we add new products en masse. This is why implementing it directly in your extension panel as (for instance) a rule we can activate for certain categories / types / etc etc

Thanks again

Hi @mrbeerheim

We hear you! Hence, we suggest that you raise this concern as an enhancement so that our developers could take a look at it.

Thanks!

I have this same request and have added a feature request here:

https://woocommerce.com/feature-request/allow-excluding-products-from-the-feed-by-category/#

Please vote for it if you feel it applies to you.