I want to hide products from a category when using the [products] shortcode

Hello,

I have used woocommerce to build my website and on the homepage of my website I have used the woocommerce [products] shortcode to display products from the Shop page.

I also used some attributes to define the items I would like displayed:
[products limit=”4″ orderby=”date” order=”DESC” columns=”4″]

The problem I am having is that I have a product category called “packages” and I didn’t want products in this category to be visible on the homepage. I was wondering if there was a way to hide products from this category using the shortcode attributes?

In the documentation, there is an attribute called “cat_operator” and an option called “NOT IN” to exclude products in the selected category.

Pls see herer:
https://prnt.sc/113pxt6

I tried adding: cat_operator=”NOT IN packages” to the shortcode so it reads:

[products limit=”4″ orderby=”date” order=”DESC” cat_operator=”NOT IN packages”]

But it doesn’t work. I have also tried a few different combinations but I still didn’t have any luck.

I’m not sure if I misunderstood the function of the said attributes but is there any way I can hide products from the packages category from showing on the homepage?

Many thanks,

Jas

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