Best hide plugins for WordPress
The most popular hide plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Email Encoder leads with 90K+ active installs, ahead of If Menu (50K+) and WP Hide & Security Enhancer (50K+). All 198 plugins tagged “hide” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 hide plugins
- 1.
Email EncoderThe most installed hide plugin, with 90K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 94 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
If Menu50K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 130 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 3.
WP Hide & Security Enhancer50K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 275 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 4.Dynamic Visibility for Elementor
50K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 89 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 5.
Hide Admin Bar20K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 30 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 6.Hide/Remove Metadata
20K+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 14 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 7.
Hide Posts20K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 22 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 8.
Hide Shipping Method For WooCommerce10K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 25 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 9.
Hide Featured Image10K+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 81 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 10.Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 29 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
All 198 plugins tagged “hide”

Email Encoder
Up in the last 7 days:3#464by Online Optimisation1 month ago
Protect email addresses and phone numbers on your site and hide them from spambots. Easy to use & flexible.
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.9(94)
- Downloads
- 411/day

If Menu
#751by Andrei1 year ago
Display tailored menu items to each visitor with visibility rules
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.1(130)
- Downloads
- 98/day

WP Hide & Security Enhancer
Up in the last 7 days:1#756by nsp-code1 month ago
Protect your website by concealing vulnerable WordPress traces, plugins, themes, login/admin url. 2FA, Captcha, Firewall, Security Headers etc.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.3(275)
- Downloads
- 330/day
Dynamic Visibility for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:2#774by Dynamic.ooo20 days ago
Show or hide Elementor widgets, containers, columns, and pages based on user role, date, device, and many other powerful conditions.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.6(89)
- Downloads
- 617/day

Hide Admin Bar
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,188by David Vongries1 year ago
Hide the Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1+.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.5(30)
- Downloads
- 62/day
Hide/Remove Metadata
#1,238by Catch Plugins5 months ago
Hide/Remove Metadata is a free WordPress plugin that helps you hide author and published date either by CSS or PHP from your website effortlessly.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 3.6(14)
- Downloads
- 75/day

Hide Posts
Down in the last 7 days:9#1,326by MartinCV5 days ago
Hide posts or WooCommerce products from the homepage, archives, search, RSS, REST API, sitemaps and SEO tools — per-post control in any editor.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.7(22)
- Downloads
- 109/day

Hide Shipping Method For WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:34#1,433by Dotstore10 days ago
Allows store owners to hide shipping methods based on specific conditions!
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.0(25)
- Downloads
- 77/day

Hide Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,561by shahpranaf8 years ago
To Hide Featured Image on single post/page.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.6(81)
- Downloads
- 27/day
Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,867by NOUS Open Usefull & Simple1 month ago
Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce. This plugins requires WooCommerce to be installed and activated
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.1(29)
- Downloads
- 95/day

Disable Media Pages
Down in the last 7 days:81#2,187by joppuyo1 month ago
Completely remove "attachment" pages for WordPress media. Improve SEO and prevent conflicts between page and image permalinks.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 5.0(17)
- Downloads
- 69/day
WP-ShowHide
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,220by Lester Chan3 months ago
Allows you to embed content within your blog post via WordPress ShortCode API and toggling the visibility of the content via a button.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.2(43)
- Downloads
- 58/day

AH Display Widgets
Down in the last 7 days:6#2,409by Andreas Hecht8 years ago
Simply hide widgets on specified pages. Adds checkboxes to each widget to either show or hide it on every site page.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Remove admin menus by role
#2,421by manu2252 months ago
Select easily which admin menus to remove for which roles.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.4(14)
- Downloads
- 31/day

WP Mailto Links
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,532by Online Optimisation3 years ago
Protect & encode email addresses safely from spambots & spamming. Easy to use - encodes emails out-of-the-box.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.6(33)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Custom Meta Widget
Up in the last 7 days:8#2,624by Luke Mlsna8 years ago
Clone of the standard Meta widget plus options to hide log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress.org/custom links.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 5.0(23)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Remove Widget Titles
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,702by Stephen Cronin9 years ago
The Remove Widget Titles plugin removes the title from any widget that has a title starting with the "!" character.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(27)
- Downloads
- 16/day

BBSpoiler
Down in the last 7 days:7#3,582by Flector1 year ago
This plugin allows you to hide text under the tags [spoiler]your text[/spoiler].
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.7(29)
- Downloads
- 18/day

WP Hide Show Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,671by Galaxy Weblinks1 year ago
The plugin provides options to hide featured images from all posts and pages.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Hide WP Admin Notifications
Up in the last 7 days:8#3,691by yodaofwp5 months ago
Hides WordPress admin notices until you choose to show them again from Settings.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 19/day

Auto Hide Admin Bar
Down in the last 7 days:7#3,712by Marcel Bootsman2 months ago
This plugin adds an auto-hide feature to the WordPress Admin Bar or Toolbar.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(32)
- Downloads
- 35/day

WPS Notice Center
#3,767by NicolasKulka2 months ago
WPS Notice Center makes it possible to hide all the instructions and to combine them in a single record to unfold. Take full advantage of your WordPre …
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 18/day

Hide This
Up in the last 7 days:8#4,340by Andrés Villarreal8 years ago
This plugin provides a shortcode that lets you hide some parts of the content from your posts and pages.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(49)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Hide Dashboard
Up in the last 7 days:12#4,853by Drew Jaynes9 years ago
Hide the Dashboard menu, Personal Options section and Help link on the Profile page from your subscribers when they are logged in.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Content Visibility for Divi Builder
Down in the last 7 days:23#4,907by Jonathan Horowitz1 month ago
Content Visibility for Divi Builder.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(101)
- Downloads
- 34/day
Conditional Blocks
Down in the last 7 days:15#5,058by Morgan Hvidt5 months ago
Easily show/hide WordPress blocks & widgets with powerful, no-code display logic. Perfect for restricting content. Explore advanced scheduling, Ge …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(15)
- Downloads
- 25/day

Hide Content by User Role for WPBakery
Down in the last 7 days:2#6,018by wpTerra1 year ago
Hide/show/restrict elements based on user roles like administrator in WPBakery page builder (formerly Visual Composer).
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(16)
- Downloads
- 11/day

ELEX Hide WooCommerce Shipping Methods
Down in the last 7 days:9#6,148by ELEXtensions26 days ago
The ELEX Hide WooCommerce Shipping Methods is a free plugin allows you to hide certain shipping methods based on shipping class, order weight, other e …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.1(8)
- Downloads
- 23/day

If Widget
Down in the last 7 days:4#6,161by Andrei5 years ago
Control what widgets your site’s visitors see, with custom visibility rules
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.4(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Visibility Control for LearnDash
Down in the last 7 days:31#6,277by Pankaj Agrawal1 year ago
Visibility Control for LearnDash helps you hide messages and content for specific criterion anywhere on your WordPress page.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 16/day
Hide Comments Feature
Down in the last 7 days:14#6,350by Vitor Carvalho9 years ago
Remove comments functionality and related in your Wordpress instance.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(6)
- Downloads
- 10/day

Simple Restrict
Up in the last 7 days:15#6,462by WP Chill3 months ago
Restrict pages based on permissions assigned to pages and granted in user profiles.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(15)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Hide Plugins
Up in the last 7 days:12#6,626by ThemeBoy10 years ago
Hide installed plugins from clients and other admin users.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Hide WP Toolbar
Down in the last 7 days:20#7,143by Jeremy Saxey1 year ago
Easily hide or show the front-end WordPress Admin Toolbar with a click of a button.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.9(13)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Blog-in-Blog
Up in the last 7 days:52#7,390by timhodson9 months ago
This plugin shows posts from a category on any page you like using shortcodes. Create multiple blogs within a blog using a category.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(16)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Hide Prices for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:50#7,830by WP Geeks2 years ago
A plugin for WooCommerce that lets you hide prices for specific products as well as hide the add to cart button.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 7/day

Visibility Control for LearnPress
Down in the last 7 days:23#8,055by Pankaj Agrawal1 year ago
Visibility Control for LearnPress helps you hide messages and content for specific criterion anywhere on your WordPress page.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Remove/Hide Admin Toolbar
Down in the last 7 days:14#8,629by Purrly Digital4 years ago
Removes/hides the admin toolbar from the front end of the site when activated
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.9(10)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Disable / Hide Comment URL
Up in the last 7 days:6#8,737by Sachin Khosla15 years ago
Disable/Hide Comment URL lets you hide the URL/Website input field from the WordPress inbuilt comments block.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Visual Admin Customizer
Down in the last 7 days:52#8,920by Janis Elsts5 years ago
Hide almost any part of the WordPress admin by using a visual editor.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Disable Customizer
Up in the last 7 days:26#9,249by joppuyo2 years ago
Completely disable Customizer on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 13/day
Oomph Hidden Tags
Down in the last 7 days:3#9,297by Ben Doherty (Oomph, Inc)10 years ago
Hide certain tags from tag lists and tag clouds. Allow capable users to see hidden tags with the see_hidden_tags capability.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day

WP Login Door
Down in the last 7 days:27#9,435by toxnico1 year ago
Adds a secret URL key to access the login page and lets you disable XML-RPC, protecting against bruteforce attacks.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Custom Admin Bar
Down in the last 7 days:22#10,085by Wes Todd14 years ago
A really simple and easy to use plugin to help gain control of the new Admin Bar.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
wpSpoiler
Down in the last 7 days:25#10,433by Felix Triller18 years ago
A plugin designed to protect the reader against spoilers.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hide Category by User Role for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:13#10,465by ThemeSupport5 months ago
This plugin allows you to easily hide WooCommerce categories based on User Role.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Hide-n-Disable-comment-url-field
Up in the last 7 days:21#11,422by sharadchhetri3 years ago
This plugin will hide and disable the URL field from wordpress default comment form.Just Activate the plugin and start using.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.8(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day

WC Hide Shipping Methods Except Pont
Up in the last 7 days:43#11,493by Krizsán Csaba2 years ago
This plugin automatically hides all other shipping methods when “free shipping” is available.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Silencesoft Disable Menu Items
Down in the last 7 days:27#11,494by silence11 years ago
This plugin allow to hide or show menu items,
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.8(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hide Categories
#11,866by Eduardo15 years ago
Hide one o more categories when you use the_category tag or wp_list_categories tag. No exclude post, but only hide a category name in template view.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day