Best exclude post plugins for WordPress
The most popular exclude post plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Search Exclude leads with 50K+ active installs, ahead of Pro Recent Post Widget (100+) and Exclude Search (80+). All 3 plugins tagged “exclude post” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 exclude post plugins
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Search ExcludeThe most installed exclude post plugin, with 50K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 218 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
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Pro Recent Post Widget100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
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Exclude Search80+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 5 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
All 3 plugins tagged “exclude post”
Search Exclude
Down in the last 7 days:1#724by quadlayers1 month ago
Hide any post or page from the search results.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.8(218)
- Downloads
- 553/day
Pro Recent Post Widget
Down in the last 7 days:50#13,765by Shambhu Patnaik11 years ago
Pro Recent Post Widget plugin.You have choice to specific category recent post show.exclude any category,exclude any post
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Exclude Search
Up in the last 7 days:34#18,102by Jainish Brahmbhatt6 months ago
Exclude posts, pages, products or custom posts from WordPress search results.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day