Hide Posts

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242 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 182 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 67% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 4.3 years ago; the previous band took 19 months to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ cupidsalman

   1.4y ago

   I have been using the “Hide Posts” plugin by MartinCV for approximately 1.5 years, and up until recently, it has been a useful tool for managing which posts to display on my WordPress site. The ability to hide posts on the front page, archive pages, blog page, recent posts widget, and even on single post pages has been very beneficial for customizing my content visibility. However, after upgrading my WordPress version to 6.8.1 on April 30, 2025, I have noticed a significant negative impact on my site’s SEO performance. The plugin seems to no longer function properly, which has led to some of my posts being improperly hidden or displayed. This disruption has caused me to lose visibility in search engines, and I’ve seen a noticeable decline in traffic as a result. I use the following settings with this plugin: Hide on frontpage Hide on archive page (including any custom taxonomy archive pages) Hide on blog page (selected in Settings → Reading) Hide from recent posts widget Hide on single post page (including recent posts, related posts, and any other widget shown on the single post page) I hope to see improvements in future updates, as this plugin has been incredibly useful in the past. However, without a fix or update to address this issue, it is currently hindering my site’s performance. Looking forward to seeing improvements soon. Best regards, Salman Khayam

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2. ★★★★★ jerome21z

   1.6y ago

   Perfect. It does exactly what it says, and it offers lots of display options. It also doesn’t affect SEO because I can see my posts in the xml sitemap after hiding it from the archive.

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3. ★★★★★ brooklynfox

   2.2y ago

   I made 20 something posts with lists of links by town/city. The links would then go off to the various towns and city pages. For some reason when I searched for a town in search the new alphabetical posts would show but not keeping any width settings unlike the other post listings. It broke the look of the page and the dreaded horizontal scrollbar appeared with a long horizontal list of the link text. I tried to fix it but could not so thought maybe I could hide those posts from the search results and went looking. As you will all know looking for plug ins is not an exciting journey so I was not thrilled. However I was lucky enough to find this plug in first search and it works EXACTLY as it says it does, which IME is weird for a plug in! So after simply checking a box my problem is solved and all the annoying posts are hidden from search. There are a tonne of other free options for the plug in but this is all I needed…for now:) Well done developer, your plug in is making a difference and is very cool!

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4. ★★★★★ bigbatsbutt

   3.1y ago

   Thank you

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5. ★★★★★ godbeloved

   4.1y ago

   This plugin is great but can you add a feature that can enable us to unhide posts in bulk? instead of doing that one by one? Maybe from siteurl/wp-admin/edit.php Thanks.

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6. ★★★★★ bgmsquad

   4.7y ago

   This plugin helped us in a big possible way. Thanks to developer. We have one small request. Can you implement a feature Post unhiding after specific time or date. That would be grateful.

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7. ★★★★★ Nathan

   4.7y ago

   This plugin started deleting menues every time a rest request was sent to the site. Use at your own peril.

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8. ★★★★★ otacke

   4.8y ago

   The plugin does exactly do what I was looking for the way I expected it to work without the need to configure anything. Thank you so much! If I wasn’t a software developer myself, I’d hire you! And I’d donate, but I couldn’t find any hint to the usual suspects …

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.1.0 Release Date – 24 November 2025 Major Update: Gutenberg Block Editor Support & Custom Database Architecture New Features Full Gutenberg Block Editor Support – Complete React-based sidebar panel with live checkboxes Custo 2.1.0
2. — Version 2.0.3 Release Date – 12 January 2024 Added support for Yoast Duplicate Post to clone the hidden flags over to the new copy = 2.0.2 Release Date – 30 December 2024 Updated frontpage / homepage query condition 2.0.3
3. — Version 2.0.1 Release Date – 27 December 2024 Small updates on the displaying of the flags in admin. 2.0.1
4. — Version 2.0 Release Date – 27 December 2024 Added custom database table to hold the hide post flags. All new Hide flags on posts will be saved in the new database table. A fallback to old data is also added in case the old data is n 2.0
5. — Version 1.1.1 Release Date – 05 October 2022 Bug fix related to checkbox not checked when enabling Hide posts on signle post page. 1.1.1
6. — Version 1.1.0 Release Date – 02 September 2022 Added option to hide posts on the single post page. This option will hide posts shown in any widget, block (related posts, recent posts etc) on the single post page. 1.1.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3

Translated into 2 languages, 1 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2022-06-29 10K+ → 20K+ up after 577 days in tier
2. 2020-11-29 9K+ → 10K+ up after 114 days in tier
3. 2020-08-07 900+ → 9K+ up

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Hide Posts: 20K+ active installs, 4.7★ (22 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/whp-hide-posts