10 Best Hide This Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Hide This has 2,000+ 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 This
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Controlled Admin Access
Closest match4.8 (45) 10,000+ active installsGive a temporarily limited admin access to themes designers, plugins developers and support agents.
Shares the capability, role, user tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
- 2
4.5 (26) 2,000+ active installsRestrict permissions with Simple Client Dashboard. Our new "Admin" user role between Administrator and Editor is perfect for clients and Webmasters.
Shares the role, user tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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4.5 (288) 700,000+ active installsUser Role Editor WordPress plugin makes user roles and capabilities changing easy. Edit/add/delete WordPress user roles and capabilities.
Shares the role, user tags on WordPress.org. About 350 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
- 4
4.5 (30) 20,000+ active installsHide the Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1+.
Shares the hide tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated November 4, 2025.
- 5
WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses
4.6 (33) 7,000+ active installsProtect & encode email addresses safely from spambots & spamming. Easy to use - encodes emails out-of-the-box.
Shares the hide tag on WordPress.org. About 3.5 times the installs, no update since September 22, 2023.
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4.2 (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 tag on WordPress.org. About 4.5 times the installs, last updated 29 days ago.
- 7
5.0 (23) 7,000+ active installsClone of the standard Meta widget plus options to hide log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress.org/custom links.
Shares the hide tag on WordPress.org. About 3.5 times the installs, no update since February 9, 2018.
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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 tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated July 30, 2026.
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4.0 (25) 10,000+ active installsAllows store owners to hide shipping methods based on specific conditions!
Shares the hide tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated January 12, 2026.
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4.1 (29) 10,000+ active installsHide Categories and Products for Woocommerce. This plugins requires WooCommerce to be installed and activated
Shares the hide tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated April 29, 2026.
Switching from Hide This: common questions
What is the best alternative to Hide This?
Controlled Admin Access is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Hide This alternative has the most users?
User Role Editor, with 700,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Hide This alternative is rated highest?
User Role Editor, rated 4.5 out of 5 by 288 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Hide This 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 This 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 This 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
Controlled Admin Access is the closest match to Hide This by the data we track, and User Role Editor has the widest reach with 700,000+ active installs. Simple Client Dashboard shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 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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