Best hide category plugins for WordPress
The most popular hide category plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Ultimate Category Excluder leads with 50K+ active installs, ahead of Hide Cart Functions (3K+) and Hide Product & Post Categories (fewer than 10). All 3 plugins tagged “hide category” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 hide category plugins
- 1.
Ultimate Category ExcluderThe most installed hide category plugin, with 50K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 78 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Hide Cart Functions3K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 14 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Hide Product & Post CategoriesFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
All 3 plugins tagged “hide category”
Ultimate Category Excluder
#769by Marios Alexandrou2 months ago
Ultimate Category Excluder allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and search results.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.3(78)
- Downloads
- 100/day
Hide Cart Functions
Down in the last 7 days:6#4,112by artiosmedia9 months ago
Hide the product's price, add-to-cart button, quantity, and options on any product and order. Inject an optional message.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.6(14)
- Downloads
- 19/day
Hide Product & Post Categories
Down in the last 7 days:1,870#72,392by Zworthkey4 years ago
WC Hide Category is Open source Software. You can easily hide your Unnecessary/Private Category on the Shop page and Post Page.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day