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Add 21 screenshots across the Elementor Tools docs and rework the pages around them: clearer opening lines, settings tables that state defaults, and callouts for the parts people trip over. Also refreshes the Pro getting-started, Custom Product Tabs and Product Filter pages, plus the matching marketing copy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# WooCommerce Account Settings
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**Dotjuice → WooCommerce Hacks → General** (only visible with WooCommerce active)
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A set of targeted fixes for the WooCommerce behaviours most stores end up wanting to change — account menu clutter, post-logout destination, filtered-URL SEO, and keeping certain products out of general browsing.
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*Screenshot: the WooCommerce Hacks page on the General tab, showing the toggles and the taxonomy term checklist at the bottom.*
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## Settings
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| Setting | Default | What it does |
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| **Hide Dashboard Tab** | Off | Removes "Dashboard" from the My Account menu. |
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| **Hide Downloads Tab** | Off | Removes "Downloads" from the My Account menu — useful when you sell nothing downloadable. |
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| **Auto Redirect to Orders** | Off | Sends customers straight to Orders instead of the account dashboard. **Requires Hide Dashboard Tab to also be on** — see below. |
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| **Redirect After Logout** | Off | Sends customers to your homepage after logging out instead of WooCommerce's default. |
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| **Canonical for Filtered URLs** | Off | SEO: points filtered shop and archive URLs at their base archive — see below. |
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| **Hide Products from Shop by Taxonomy** | None | Pick a product taxonomy (categories, tags, brands, attributes, or a custom one) and tick the terms whose products should be hidden from the Shop page and that term's archive. |
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## "Auto Redirect to Orders" needs "Hide Dashboard Tab" too
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:::caution
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These two work as a pair. **Auto Redirect to Orders only takes effect when Hide Dashboard Tab is also on.** If you switch on the redirect alone and nothing happens, this is why.
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The reason is that the redirect sends people away from the dashboard, so leaving the dashboard link visible in the menu would produce a tab that bounces the customer elsewhere every time they click it.
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## Canonical for Filtered URLs (SEO)
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If you use the Pro [Woo Product Filter](../dotjuice-elementor-tools-pro/widgets/woo-product-filter.md), shoppers generate URLs like `?product_cat=t-shirts&pa_color=blue` as they browse. Left alone, search engines can treat every filter combination as a separate near-duplicate page, spreading your ranking signals across thousands of thin variants.
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Switch this on and the plugin sets each page's **canonical URL** to the base archive, telling search engines which single page to index:
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| Situation | Canonical points to |
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| A category or attribute archive, filtered further | That term's clean archive, e.g. `/t-shirts/` |
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| The shop page filtered by a single category | That category's archive, e.g. `/t-shirts/` |
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| Anything else — multiple categories, attribute-only filters | The shop page |
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Pagination and filter combinations all consolidate onto that one page. It works with **Yoast SEO** and **Rank Math**, whichever is active. Filter URLs continue to work normally for shoppers — this only changes the canonical tag search engines read, not what people see.
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Safe to leave on for any filtered store.
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## Hiding products by taxonomy
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Ticking a term here removes its products from:
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- Your main Shop page
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- That term's own archive page
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It does **not** remove them from search results, related products, or any widget built to show that term specifically. That's deliberate: this is for keeping products out of general browsing — clearance lines, trade-only items, accessories that clutter the grid — not for hiding them from the store entirely.
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If you need a product genuinely hidden everywhere, use WooCommerce's own catalog visibility setting on the product instead.
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## Setting it up
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1. Switch on whichever toggles match what you want changed.
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2. To send customers straight to Orders, enable **Hide Dashboard Tab** and **Auto Redirect to Orders** together.
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3. On a filtered store, enable **Canonical for Filtered URLs**.
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4. To hide products, choose a taxonomy, tick the terms, and save.
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Changes take effect immediately — no cache clear needed unless you run full-page caching, in which case purge it so shoppers don't see stale archives.
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