dotjuice-plugin-docs/docs/dotjuice-elementor-tools/woocommerce-account-settings.md

WooCommerce Account Settings

Dotjuice → WooCommerce Hacks → General (only visible with WooCommerce active)

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.

Screenshot: the WooCommerce Hacks page on the General tab, showing the toggles and the taxonomy term checklist at the bottom.

Settings

Setting	Default	What it does
Hide Dashboard Tab	Off	Removes "Dashboard" from the My Account menu.
Hide Downloads Tab	Off	Removes "Downloads" from the My Account menu — useful when you sell nothing downloadable.
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.
Redirect After Logout	Off	Sends customers to your homepage after logging out instead of WooCommerce's default.
Canonical for Filtered URLs	Off	SEO: points filtered shop and archive URLs at their base archive — see below.
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.

"Auto Redirect to Orders" needs "Hide Dashboard Tab" too

:::caution 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.

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. :::

Canonical for Filtered URLs (SEO)

If you use the Pro Woo Product Filter, 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.

Switch this on and the plugin sets each page's canonical URL to the base archive, telling search engines which single page to index:

Situation	Canonical points to
A category or attribute archive, filtered further	That term's clean archive, e.g. /t-shirts/
The shop page filtered by a single category	That category's archive, e.g. /t-shirts/
Anything else — multiple categories, attribute-only filters	The shop page

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.

Safe to leave on for any filtered store.

Hiding products by taxonomy

Ticking a term here removes its products from:

• Your main Shop page
• That term's own archive page

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.

If you need a product genuinely hidden everywhere, use WooCommerce's own catalog visibility setting on the product instead.

Setting it up

1. Switch on whichever toggles match what you want changed.
2. To send customers straight to Orders, enable Hide Dashboard Tab and Auto Redirect to Orders together.
3. On a filtered store, enable Canonical for Filtered URLs.
4. To hide products, choose a taxonomy, tick the terms, and save.

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.