Ultimate Category Excluder

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 88% 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. ★★★★★ mikelidbetter

   8mo ago

   Very basic and only works on native Post categories from what I can see, I wanted to use it for WooCommerce categories. Unable to exclude/include a category from the native WP categories list. You must go into the actual plugin to do it. Therefore it wasn’t at all useful for what I wanted. I would have given it zero stars if I could. This topic was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by mikelidbetter.

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2. ★★★★★ georgepond

   1.4y ago

   Warning to Elementor users. Do not install/activate this plugin!I have an WordPress/Elementor website which has been live for months and I’ve used several plugins with it. Immediately after I activated Ultimate Category Excluder and tried to exclude one blog post category, ALL of the pages on the site lost their headers and footers.That was a very scary moment! The solution (after deleting this plugin!) is to change the site layout back to “Elementor Full Width.” For some reason, the Ultimate Category Excuder sets the site layout to “Elementor Canvas”… which hides the Header and Footer. This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by georgepond.

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3. ★★★★★ CyberCobre

   2.2y ago

   I’m thrilled to report that IT WORKS!!!!!!

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4. ★★★★★ colnago1

   2.5y ago

   Add a button to check all categories at once

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5. ★★★★★ JJNW

   2.6y ago

   THANK YOU – does what it says – very awesome, very cool – THANK YOU!!!!

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6. ★★★★★ spreaditunlimited

   3.9y ago

   It got my site to 0 organic traffic after using it to hide just 1 category

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7. ★★★★★ estiedejager

   4.0y ago

   Looks very promising, but you can only hide or exclude Blog Categories and not product categories. For that one needs some very expensive plugins. Would be neat is someone could create such a plugin though

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8. ★★★★★ ptipti23

   4.2y ago

   Hello! Can you improve your plugin for hiding category in WordPress Category Widget? Example code: function exclude_widget_categories($args) { $options = ksuce_get_options(); $exclude = array(); foreach ( $options[ 'exclude_main' ] as $value ) { $exclude[] = $value; } $args["exclude"] = implode(',', $exclude); return $args; } add_filter("widget_categories_args","exclude_widget_categories");

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.7 Added option to disable category exclusion if request for posts is coming from authenticated API. Thanks to Daniel Jalkut (Red Sweater) (@redsweater) for providing the code. 1.7
2. — Version 1.6 Added array checks to avoid fatal error on plugin’s admin page. 1.6
3. — Version 1.5 Corrected text domain value. 1.5
4. — Version 1.4 No code changes. Syncing files. 1.4
5. — Version 1.3 Modified implementation of text domain to match the standard approach. 1.3
6. — Version 1.2 Addressed minor vulnerability reported by SCA AppSec of Checkmarx. If concerned, review your UCE category settings to ensure they are set as expected. 1.2

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. High · 8.8 Ultimate Category Excluder <= 1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2020-01-08 CVE-2020-35135 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.1 Patched in 1.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.1.1

Translated into 50 languages, 7 at 90% or more · development strings

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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).

• Exclude Category from Blog 1K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
• Display Categories Widget 3K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag D
• Hide Cart Functions 3K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag B
• P Pro Categories Widget 800+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag D
• H Hide Categories 200+ installs · 3.8★ · 1 shared tag D
• Hide Product Categories & Products for WooCommerce 20+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag B

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Ultimate Category Excluder: 50K+ active installs, 4.2★ (77 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/ultimate-category-excluder