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WP-ShowHide
A basic toggle that might hide your content and your patience.
HealthyGrowing
63/100
The plugin provides basic visibility features but lacks documentation and reliable support for modern WordPress sites.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.2★
43 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+183%
Growing fast
9 → 26 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 · +183% in the last year
9/day a year ago→26/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP-ShowHide is praised for its simplicity and basic functionality, but many users report compatibility, documentation, and support problems.
What people like
- +Simple and works out of the box×4
- +Compatible with recent WordPress 5.6 and PHP 7.4
- +Provides the expected show/hide functionality×2
Common complaints
- −Incompatible with latest WordPress versions (e.g., WP 5.5.1) (since 5.5.1)×2
- −Hidden content not visible or only works when logged into wp-admin
- −Lack of detailed documentation
- −Support requests often go unanswered or receive unhelpful replies×2
- −Limited to posts/pages; does not work in tag, category, or other content types×2
- −Shortcode customization broken, always shows default text and requires CSS changes
- −Missing settings UI for configuring the plugin
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.20★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-05-102025-12-062026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 43 total
Latest reviews · 43 analyzed
- 2025-07-03★★★★★Works great with WP 6.8.1Dave Smith
- 2025-04-13★★★★★Needs Updatevivatword
- 2022-02-09★★★★★Needs documentationdelboy007
- 2021-01-30★★★★★Great pluginRollaz
- 2020-12-23★★★★★WP ShowHide is a great plugin,thetravelgal
- 2020-09-20★★★★★great idea but doesn't workpentagramwookie
- 2020-08-17★★★★★Nice pluginDoeye Hof
- 2020-07-18★★★★★Really Nice Job.José
- 2020-06-22★★★★★Fantasticbroudef
- 2020-05-08★★★★★关于CSS样式修改iacg1-shot
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.
25
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
20
Prior 7-day baseline
21
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
63
Mean release-day peak (30d)
25
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+25.0%
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.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.45
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
70%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.16 → 4.20★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered