What changed

WooCommerce reports that recent Pinterest connector releases exclude password-protected products and their variations from the catalog feed. The release also reduces sensitive information in diagnostics and addresses connection and administration failures. A feed refresh follows the update.

StoreU assessment

A private page and a private external catalog are separate operational concerns. Merchants who prepare unreleased products, wholesale assortments or invitation-only collections should review both. The absence of a visible product in the storefront is not, by itself, a complete feed audit.

Suggested verification

Choose one ordinary product and one password-protected product from a staging catalog. Check the connector's generated feed and the receiving catalog after synchronization. Confirm that titles containing special characters and product variations still arrive as intended. If an account reconnect is required, use the connector's own administration flow and confirm the destination account before enabling another sync.

Keep a short record of the connector version and the examples checked. That record makes a later catalog discrepancy easier to investigate.

Editorial basis

The feature information comes from WooCommerce's release note; the verification procedure is StoreU's independent guidance.