Hide Categories

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1. ★★★★★ Heliocles

   10.3y ago

   A client was using this and when I updated WP it stopped working. If you are already using it, you can make it work by changing one line in the plugin code. Go to the plugin editor and select Hide Categories from the drop down. The file selected on the right should be ‘hide-categories/hide-categories.php’ 32 lines down you should see: if(in_array($key, $exclude)) unset($code[$key]); Replace only the first $key with $r->term_id and save.

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2. ★★★★★ Erwin

   10.7y ago

   Does not hide the selected categories. Some of the selected categories were hidden on some posts and on others, other (seemingly) random categories were hidden. Tested with 4.4 and theme ColorMag.

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3. ★★★★★ Dashcam Wiki

   11.1y ago

   tested with Avada 3.8.4 and WP 4.2.4

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4. ★★★★★ prosperewebitor

   11.3y ago

   I’ve had this plugin for years, but as of this morning, it doesn’t seem to work anymore! Some of the categories that I’ve hidden are displaying and others that I did not hide are hidden.

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5. ★★★★★ jaysonlopez7

   11.4y ago

   I was looking for a simple plugin to simply hide a post category from displaying my “slider” category on my footer widget and this worked perfectly. I’m using a slider that needs me to add the images as posts to a category and this did the trick. Thank you to the creator of this plugin!

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6. ★★★★★ arnaeth

   12.2y ago

   excelent, doing its job!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-01-16 300+ → 200+ down after 532 days in tier
2. 2024-08-02 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2024-08-01 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
4. 2024-07-30 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
5. 2024-07-29 300+ → 400+ up after 3 days in tier
6. 2024-07-26 400+ → 300+ down after 6 days in tier
7. 2024-07-20 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2024-07-19 400+ → 300+ down after 3 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Hide Category by User Role for WooCommerce 300+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• W WP Hide Category 100+ installs · 3.4★ · 2 shared tags D
• Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers 90K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• Pages with category and tag 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• If Menu – Visibility control for Menus 50K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag C
• WP Hide & Security Enhancer 50K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A

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Hide Categories: 200+ active installs, 3.7★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/hide-categories