How to hide the WooCommerce Shop page

I’ve been asked if it is possible to hide the WooCommerce Shop page based on Groups’ access restrictions. As it is, trying to apply the normal way (checking a capability in the Access restrictions of the page) simply doesn’t work.

So what does work? Here’s an example:

Let’s assume that you are protecting your pages using the standard groups_read_post capability, any user that belongs to a group with that capability should be able to access the Shop page.

Create the woocommerce folder under the base folder of your active theme and copy archive-product.php from woocommerce/templates there.

At the top of your fresh copy, insert:

if ( class_exists( 'Groups_User' ) ) {
	$redirect = true;
	if ( $user_id = get_current_user_id() ) {
		$user = new Groups_User( $user_id );
		if ( $user->can( 'groups_read_post' ) ) {
			$redirect = false;
		}
	}
	if ( $redirect ) {
		wp_redirect( get_bloginfo( 'home' ) );
	}
}

… right before:

get_header('shop');

This will redirect visitors who try to access the Shop page to the site’s home page.