10 Best Hide Featured Image Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Hide Featured Image has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Hide Featured Image
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WP-ShowHide
Closest match4.2 (43) 9,000+ active installsAllows you to embed content within your blog post via WordPress ShortCode API and toggling the visibility of the content via a button.
Shares the hide, show tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 29 days ago.
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4.8 (101) 2,000+ active installsContent Visibility for Divi Builder.
Shares the hide, show tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.8 against 3.6, last updated June 5, 2026.
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4.7 (22) 20,000+ active installsHide posts or WooCommerce products from the homepage, archives, search, RSS, REST API, sitemaps and SEO tools — per-post control in any editor.
Shares the hide, show tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated July 30, 2026.
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Featured Image from URL (FIFU)
4.6 (264) 60,000+ active installsUse remote media as the featured image and beyond.
Shares the featured, image tags on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 3.6, last updated 6 days ago.
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4.8 (38) 30,000+ active installsEasily control whether the featured image appears in the single post or page view (doesn't hide it in archive/list view).
Shares the featured, image tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated May 3, 2026.
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5.0 (23) 2,000+ active installsAdd the featured image into your RSS feed (in the media:content). Works nicely with Mailchimp (|RSSITEM:IMAGE|). Light and simple, no options, no clut …
Shares the featured, image tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since October 12, 2023.
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4.8 (29) 4,000+ active installsA plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types.
Shares the featured, post tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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4.2 (45) 2,000+ active installsWP Image Borders makes it easy to add decorative image borders to pictures in your blog posts.
Shares the image, post tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.8 (20) 20,000+ active installsWhat this plugin does is to shows the IDs on admin section.
Shares the show tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated May 21, 2026.
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4.7 (20) 3,000+ active installsDo you like giving posts a Featured Image? Try out a Featured Gallery. It's like a Featured Images ... except as many images as you want.
Shares the featured tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since August 2, 2018.
Switching from Hide Featured Image: common questions
What is the best alternative to Hide Featured Image?
WP-ShowHide is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 9,000+ active installs with a 4.2 out of 5 rating.
Which Hide Featured Image alternative has the most users?
Featured Image from URL, with 60,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Hide Featured Image alternative is rated highest?
Content Visibility for Divi Builder, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 101 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Hide Featured Image alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Hide Featured Image score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Hide Featured Image on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
WP-ShowHide is the closest match to Hide Featured Image by the data we track, and Featured Image from URL has the widest reach with 60,000+ active installs. NS Featured Posts shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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