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Hide/Remove Metadata

by Catch Plugins · Uncategorized

Hide/Remove Metadata is a free WordPress plugin that helps you hide author and published date either by CSS or PHP from your website effortlessly.

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81 Health · B
Maintenance 100
Rating quality 68
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-76%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “20K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
20K–30K ≈27K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install trend · reconstructed from 1378 daily snapshots

Details

Version
2.1
Last updated
2mo ago
Added
2019-06-04
Requires WP
5.9
Tested up to
7.0.1
Requires PHP
7.4

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-10-25 30K+ → 20K+ down

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Hide/Remove Metadata: 20K+ active installs, 3.6★ (14 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/hide-metadata