Best hide text plugins for WordPress
The most popular hide text plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Hide Text Shortcode leads with 400+ active installs, ahead of Hide/Show Post/Page Content (100+) and Blur Text (100+). All 5 plugins tagged “hide text” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 hide text plugins
- 1.Hide Text Shortcode
The most installed hide text plugin, with 400+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 2.
Hide/Show Post/Page Content100+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 5 reviews, updated 4 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 3.
Blur Text100+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 4.Wp UCanHide
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 18 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.5.1.
- 5.HTMLComment
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
All 5 plugins tagged “hide text”
Hide Text Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:177#9,806by biscia710 years ago
Shortcode to hide text
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hide/Show Post/Page Content
#16,068by sosidee4 months ago
Hides or shows a selected part of public posts/pages content (text, images, etc.) depending on whether the user is logged or not.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 5/day

Blur Text
Down in the last 7 days:103#16,524by Linnea Huxford1 year ago
Blur Text with a shortcode. Unblur with a click or hover. Specify a blur color.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wp UCanHide
Up in the last 7 days:6,064#36,221wp-ucanhide18 years ago
A very useful and simple plug-in that allows you to hide a part of a post (links,image...) for people who are not logged on your site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
HTMLComment
#42,927by hartley_h16 years ago
A very useful and simple plug-in that allows you to hide a part of a post (links,image...) using standard HTML comment markers <!-- and -->.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day