Hide Posts — WordPress Related Posts Plugin
by MartinCV · WordPress.org page
Hide Posts has 20,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 273,020 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on July 30, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Hide Posts at a glance
Is Hide Posts well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Full Block Editor support — a native sidebar panel with all hide options, plus the classic metabox
- Works with the Query Loop block and custom queries
- Enable hiding for any Custom Post Type from the settings page
- Bulk Edit and Quick Edit support for managing many posts at once
- “Hidden On” column in the posts list so you always see what’s hidden where
- Custom database table and layered caching — no postmeta bloat, no slow queries on busy sites
Hide Posts reviews and ratings
22 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Plugin Affected SEO After WordPress Update
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
cupidsalman -
Perfect Right Out of the Box; Does Not Affect SEO
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.
jerome21z -
I needed to hide alphabetical posts from search results
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!
brooklynfox -
Amazing and updated
Thank you
bigbatsbutt -
Perfect
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.
godbeloved -
Works as said. No issues so far.
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.
bgmsquad
Where Hide Posts ranks on WordPress.org
The rankings we track that Hide Posts appears in, and how its position changed over 30 days.
| Ranking | WordPress.org placement | Position | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Related Posts Plugins | #25 in search, not tagged | #50 | – |
| Best RSS Feed Plugins | #30 in search, not tagged | #56 | – |
| Best Sitemap Plugins | #43 in search, not tagged | #74 | – |
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Details
Hide posts or WooCommerce products from the homepage, archives, search, RSS, REST API, sitemaps and SEO tools — per-post control in any editor.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- hide
- hide posts
- hide products
- show
- visibility
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- Version
- 2.1.2
- Last updated
- Jul 30, 2026
- First published
- Oct 11, 2017
- Requires WordPress
- 5.0
- Tested up to
- 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 7.3
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Hide Posts FAQ
What does Hide Posts do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Hide Posts offers Full Block Editor support — a native sidebar panel with all hide options, plus the classic metabox, Works with the Query Loop block and custom queries, Enable hiding for any Custom Post Type from the settings page, Bulk Edit and Quick Edit support for managing many posts at once and “Hidden On” column in the posts list so you always see what’s hidden where.
How many active installs does Hide Posts have?
WordPress.org reports 20,000+ active installs for Hide Posts as of September 7, 2026.
Is Hide Posts still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on July 30, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Does Hide Posts have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 0 of 1 recent support threads for Hide Posts are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is Hide Posts free?
Hide Posts is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.
Where does Hide Posts rank among Related Posts Plugins?
Hide Posts is #50 in the WordPress.org Related Posts Plugins ranking.