I don't want certain product to show in listings (new, all, etc)

[shocker]

I have three special product items set up for custom made items (see Custom Works for better understanding). I don't want these items to show in product listings other than its own category. How can I accomplish this?

[econcepts]

You could create a seperate category for each (or all) of these products, then turn the Category status to "disabled", but turn the product(s) within that category to "enabled" (status active).

That will hide the categories from the listings, but make the products available for viewing still (you would have to link to them).

If you want the products to show in the listings, but within their own category, you would do the same thing except leave the "category status" to on as well. This would show the products in the results, and show the categories that they are listed in (separately from the others).

[jettrue]

There's also the HideCategories mod, that you could use. Here's an excerpt from its' readme.txt:

- You can declare a category as "normal", "Hidden from menus", and "Hidden" (Direct-link only). Hidden from menus means the categories side box and index listing page won't list that category for public viewing. However, the category behaves normally other than that (products within ARE listed in the "All Products" link and available through search, etc). The "Hidden" option hides it from searches and the "all", "featured" and "new" listings as well as search results. This is similar to disabling the product/category except that it can still be seen if the customer has a direct link to the item.

You can probably figure out a way with this mod to get it to work just how you want.

hideCategories download link

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[IllusionGuy]

Hey jettrue, thanks for the info I needed to do the same thing

[point0fsale]

Very good solution to a simple need.