70
Hide Posts
Small and effective but handle your menus with care.
HealthyGrowing
70/100
This lightweight tool works well for hiding content but carries risks of breaking menus or site updates.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.7★
22 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+26%
Growing fast
64 → 81 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 6 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +26% in the last year
64/day a year ago→81/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayHide Posts is a well-regarded, lightweight plugin that reliably hides individual posts from specific page types with minimal configuration, though a compatibility break with WordPress 6.8.1 and a separate report of menu deletion raise real reliability concerns.
What people like
- +Does exactly what it advertises — hides posts from specific page types (front page, archive, blog page, search, widgets, single post pages) with minimal or no configuration required×8
- +Granular, flexible hiding options covering a wide range of page and widget contexts×3
- +Does not affect SEO — hidden posts remain visible in XML sitemaps and to search engines×2
- +Developer provides responsive, professional support×2
Common complaints
- −Plugin broke after upgrading to WordPress 6.8.1, causing posts to be improperly hidden or displayed and negatively impacting SEO and traffic (since 6.8.1)
- −Reported to delete navigation menus whenever a REST API request is sent to the site
- −No bulk unhide functionality — posts must be unhidden one at a time
- −No option to automatically unhide posts after a specific date or time
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.85★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 9%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 22 total
Latest reviews · 22 analyzed
- 2025-05-28★★★★★Plugin Affected SEO After WordPress Updatecupidsalman1-shot
- 2025-04-08★★★★★Perfect Right Out of the Box; Does Not Affect SEOjerome21z
- 2024-09-03★★★★★I needed to hide alphabetical posts from search resultsbrooklynfox
- 2023-10-04★★★★★Amazing and updatedbigbatsbutt
- 2022-09-21★★★★★Perfectgodbeloved
- 2022-02-15★★★★★Works as said. No issues so far.bgmsquad
- 2022-02-09★★★★★Users beware, deleting menusNathan
- 2022-02-07★★★★★Magnificentotacke
- 2021-07-20★★★★★XML Sitemaps?d.
- 2021-01-30★★★★★It works as expectedhujuice
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
71
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
80
Prior 7-day baseline
59
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
77
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-11.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.69
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
9%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.68 → 4.85★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered