Hide Plugins

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Directory rank vs rivals

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How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ phil1ooo

   8.9y ago

   Can this be made to only hide plugins from specific sites instead of all. I use multisite and all plugins as you know are installed from super-admin but I don’t need every plugin on every site. I know I can deactivate network from activate but this would also affect all sites that I use specific networking on but it’s those sites that don’t need the network activated plugins on that I would like to hide the plugin from as it gets to messy having so many useless/un-used plugins on each site.

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2. ★★★★★ wholearmormedia

   9.5y ago

   Works great, even hides plugins from other admin users.

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3. ★★★★★ Arkadia

   10.3y ago

   Incredibly useful. Works wonderfully and simple to use. No more clients messing with vital plugins. 🙂 Saves me so much work and time. Thank you!

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4. ★★★★★ Noahj Champion

   10.8y ago

   This plugin is so simple. No settings pages and enables you to hide plugins from all users but yourself. It simply adds a hide link next to each plugin, allowing you to click it and that’s it. It will hide that plugin from everyone but you. The only thing missing is an option to export the plugins hid to use on other sites. It would be good for other users, but I’ve created my own them and just import the database entry so those hidden plugin settings are applied automatically.

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5. ★★★★★ Pigo3934blog

   11.6y ago

   The settings are on the “Plugins” page. Just click on the “Hide” or “Show” link next to each plugin. Works great. =================== What I REALLY like about this plugin is that it allows me to HIDE plugins from being tampered with by clients that INSIST on having access to the “Plugins” page, just so they can learn the settings or pass OUR HARD WORK AND RESEARCH onto a cheaper paid programmer to maintain OUR hard work. =================== Thanks for this one.

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6. ★★★★★ arya252

   11.6y ago

   big like

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7. ★★★★★ Alexandru Linca

   11.9y ago

   I tested 3 of my wordpress installation and works perfectly.

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8. ★★★★★ ScarLight

   12.3y ago

   If it also hides the hidden plugin from showing up in “Install Plugins”. There is no reason to show “Installed” plugins after it is hidden. Anyway, great work 🙂

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

1. Medium · 4.3 Hide Plugins <= 1.0.4 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2025-12-31 CVE-2025-62115 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.4 No patch available

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. 2024-04-27 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2024-04-26 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2024-04-25 2K+ → 1K+ down after 4 days in tier
4. 2024-04-21 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2024-04-20 2K+ → 1K+ down

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 Admin Bar 20K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags B
• Hide WP Admin Notifications 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
• W WP Hide Dashboard 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags D
• Admin Menu Editor 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• White Label CMS 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Display PHP Version 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags D

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Hide Plugins: 1K+ active installs, 4.8★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/hide-plugins