10 Best Hide/Remove Metadata Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Hide/Remove Metadata has 20,000+ 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/Remove Metadata
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WP Meta and Date Remover
Closest match4.2 (71) 90,000+ active installsRemove meta author and date information from posts and pages. Hide from Humans and Search engines.SEO friendly and most advance plugin.
Shares the author, date, metadata tags on WordPress.org. About 4.5 times the installs, last updated May 31, 2026.
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5.0 (27) 6,000+ active installsThe Remove Widget Titles plugin removes the title from any widget that has a title starting with the "!" character.
Shares the hide, remove tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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5.0 (28) 10,000+ active installsThis plugin will remove the version info appended to enqueued style and script urls along with Meta Generator in the head section and in RSS feeds.
Shares the remove tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated September 23, 2025.
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5.0 (33) 10,000+ active installsRemove custom post type base slug from url
Shares the remove tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated December 1, 2025.
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Media Hygiene: Remove or Delete Unused Images and More!
4.1 (38) 5,000+ active installsThe Media Hygiene plugin removes unused media from the WordPress library to free up space, reduce clutter, and improve server performance.
Shares the remove tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated May 25, 2026.
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4.9 (33) 10,000+ active installsShortcodes to wrap around text, which specify at what date or time that content should appear or disappear, either once, or on a recurring basis.
Shares the date tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since October 1, 2019.
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4.2 (32) 7,000+ active installsFast and Powerful plugin for Jalali calendar and Farsi language support in Wordpress and standard plugins.
Shares the date tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since September 11, 2020.
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4.9 (31) 10,000+ active installsShortcode to show any current, past, and future date or time. Display this, previous, or next year, month, day, etc.
Shares the date tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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4.8 (84) 100,000+ active installsAllows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base.
Shares the author tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since May 27, 2025.
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Starbox – the Author Box for Humans
4.5 (203) 10,000+ active installsStarbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship
Shares the author tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since May 9, 2025.
Switching from Hide/Remove Metadata: common questions
What is the best alternative to Hide/Remove Metadata?
WP Meta and Date Remover is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 90,000+ active installs with a 4.2 out of 5 rating.
Which Hide/Remove Metadata alternative has the most users?
Edit Author Slug, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Hide/Remove Metadata alternative is rated highest?
Edit Author Slug, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 84 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Hide/Remove Metadata 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/Remove Metadata 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/Remove Metadata 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 Meta and Date Remover is the closest match to Hide/Remove Metadata by the data we track, and Edit Author Slug has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. WP Date and Time Shortcode shipped the most recent release, on August 25, 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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