Best remove plugins for WordPress
The most popular remove plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Hide/Remove Metadata leads with 20K+ active installs, ahead of Remove CPT base (10K+) and Meta Generator and Version Info Remover (10K+). All 110 plugins tagged “remove” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 remove plugins
- 1.Hide/Remove Metadata
The most installed remove plugin, with 20K+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 14 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 2.
Remove CPT base10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 33 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Meta Generator and Version Info Remover10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 28 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 4.
Disable Media Pages9K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 17 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
Remove admin menus by role8K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 14 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.Remove Widget Titles
6K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 27 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 7.
Unbloater5K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 17 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 8.Title Toggle for Storefront Theme
3K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 17 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 9.
Remove jQuery Migrate3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 10.Remove Author Pages
2K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 9 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
All 110 plugins tagged “remove”
Hide/Remove Metadata
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,239by 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

Remove CPT base
Down in the last 7 days:39#1,838by kubiq11 months ago
Remove custom post type base slug from url
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(33)
- Downloads
- 44/day

Meta Generator and Version Info Remover
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,153by Pankaj Mondal1 year ago
This plugin will remove the version info appended to enqueued style and script urls along with Meta Generator in the head section and in RSS feeds.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(28)
- Downloads
- 34/day

Disable Media Pages
Down in the last 7 days:69#2,188by 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

Remove admin menus by role
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,421by manu2252 months ago
Select easily which admin menus to remove for which roles.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.4(14)
- Downloads
- 29/day
Remove Widget Titles
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,705by 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
- 15/day

Unbloater
Down in the last 7 days:3#3,069by christophrado5 months ago
Remove unnecessary code, nags and bloat from WordPress core and certain plugins.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(17)
- Downloads
- 31/day
Title Toggle for Storefront Theme
Up in the last 7 days:2#3,851by wooassist2 years ago
Hide titles on a per post/page basis. Must be using the Storefront theme.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.5(17)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Remove jQuery Migrate
Down in the last 7 days:30#4,060by Hendy Tan3 years ago
A very lightweight plugin that removes jQuery Migrate script from your WordPress site's front end.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Remove Author Pages
Down in the last 7 days:42#4,411by Vinicius Braz Pinto9 years ago
Remove author pages and link authors to home page
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
wp_head() cleaner
Up in the last 7 days:3#4,436by jwilsson2 months ago
Remove unused tags from wp_head() output.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Remove WordPress Overhead
Down in the last 7 days:26#5,478by omnisite2 years ago
Remove overhead from the HTML, speed up your website and disable widgets you don't use
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Image Title Remove
Down in the last 7 days:10#5,787by sakal0375 months ago
Remove titles for all images. It will remove image title if you have too many random hashtag image names on website. So it will not show on hover.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Remove Meta Generators
Up in the last 7 days:21#6,311by webbernaut3 months ago
Remove all meta generator tags for all plugins. No settings necessary! Install and activate.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simple No Comments
Up in the last 7 days:12#6,334by jitendra59849 years ago
Easiest plugin to disable/remove comments from complete site.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 10/day
Hide Comments Feature
Down in the last 7 days:10#6,344by Vitor Carvalho9 years ago
Remove comments functionality and related in your Wordpress instance.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
No Image Link
Up in the last 7 days:1#6,562by Scott Werner9 years ago
Defaults the Image Link option to 'none' when adding a picture to a page or post.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.4(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Remove Image Links
Up in the last 7 days:5#7,355by Luke Mlsna11 years ago
1) The link field for new images being inserted is blank by default. 2) The link code in existing posts and pages is not deleted but it is not outputt …
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Remove Broken Images
Down in the last 7 days:40#7,722by Room 34 Creative Services, LLC5 months ago
Very simply, uses JavaScript to remove broken images from page display.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Disable Customizer
Up in the last 7 days:23#9,245by joppuyo2 years ago
Completely disable Customizer on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 13/day

Disable WP Revisions
Down in the last 7 days:65#9,849by Carlos Martínez Romero3 years ago
This plugin removes the revision functionality from WordPress so that any content is deleted permanently.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove Protected
Up in the last 7 days:1#10,119by Aubrey Portwood9 years ago
Small script that removes Protected: and Private: from titles of posts and pages that are password protected and private.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove Google Captcha
Up in the last 7 days:1#10,575by skybrushmedia4 years ago
This tiny plugin removes Google captcha functionality from Divi, which is responsible for loading font "Roboto" from Google servers.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Head Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:14#11,796by gr8nilay2 years ago
This plugin allow you to remove unnecessary tags, links, urls, scrips and many additional things from your WordPress header to speed up site loading t …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Redirect Permallink
Down in the last 7 days:23#12,687by nabtron1 year ago
Efficiently redirect previous urls that were '/postname/post_id/' to '/postname/' automatically. Respects query variables.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CS Remove Version Number From CSS & JS
Up in the last 7 days:30#13,366by Chetan Satasiya4 years ago
This plugin will remove the version number from CSS and JS files.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 7/day

GN Product and Image Remover
Down in the last 7 days:21#13,667by George Nicolaou9 months ago
Allows you to delete Woocommerce images after deleting product unless the image is used in another product
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Remove tabs and fields from WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:144#14,046by Puvox Software18 days ago
[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍 ] Remove or edit extra fields from WooCommerce items & checkout
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Empty Tags Remover
Down in the last 7 days:69#14,116by Dan-Lucian Stefancu1 year ago
Really simple plugin. It just removes all your empty tags on demand.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Manage/Remove version number from CSS & JS
Up in the last 7 days:24#14,510by Chetan Vaghela4 months ago
Manage, remove, or replace CSS and JavaScript version numbers with file modified timestamps for better cache management.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Clean WP Dashboard
Down in the last 7 days:70#15,497by sant0sk117 years ago
Easily remove any/all of the default WordPress dashboard widgets
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hide Admin Icons
Down in the last 7 days:233#16,061by Plugin Pizza5 months ago
Hides the icons in the admin navigation and admin page titles.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Space Remover
Down in the last 7 days:93#16,592by mgwe10 years ago
Space Remover removes any leading or trailing spaces from your post and page content. Securing a clean and consistent website layout.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hide Generator Version
#16,773by freemp2 months ago
Removes the generator meta-tag and comprehensively hides the version number of your WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day
Remove Ozh unobstrusive credits in footer
Down in the last 7 days:208#16,795by tempor8 years ago
Removes Ozh footer text from the admin backend. Author: Polemos
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove WordFence 2FA
Down in the last 7 days:886#17,180by Sam6 years ago
(Visually) removes all trace of the WordFence 2FA feature
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Style Stripper
Down in the last 7 days:53#17,865by ericjuden10 years ago
Removes all inline style tags from the content of posts/pages/custom post types.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove Special Characters From Permalinks
Up in the last 7 days:237#18,111by WPFactory1 month ago
Removes special characters from permalinks
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Hide Related Products in WooCommerce
#18,331by Shama Solanki7 years ago
Install plugin to remove related products from your product page
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admins only Jetpack
Down in the last 7 days:178#18,524by Andrija Naglic5 years ago
Hides Jetpack for all non admin users.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 3.2(13)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove WP Generator Meta Tag
Down in the last 7 days:10#18,636by ruudkok4 years ago
This plugin will remove the generator meta tag from the head of your page.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Disable Trash
Down in the last 7 days:135#19,026by Carlos Martínez Romero3 years ago
This plugin removes the trash functionality from WordPress so that any content is deleted permanently.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Delete Own Admin Account
Down in the last 7 days:155#19,093by activity-log.com1 year ago
Adds a safe “Delete Own Account” action to an administrator’s own row in the WordPress Users list, enabling self-removal while preserving site integri …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hide "Comments are closed" Text
Down in the last 7 days:250#19,235by Arshad Hussain10 years ago
This plugin hide the text "Comments are closed" in comment section of post.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Easy Options Hide Shipping Method per product for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:52#20,700by Jeff Sherk2 years ago
Allows you to hide a specific shipping method when a certain product is added to the WooCommerce shopping cart. This can be selected on a per product …
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hide Language Switcher
Down in the last 7 days:279#21,590by ziher44 years ago
Hides language switcher feature from login screens introduced in WordPress 5.9
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove custom fields metabox
Down in the last 7 days:766#21,897by Bradley Taylor6 years ago
Remove the custom fields metabox to improve performance.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Remove WP Dashboard Extra Widgets
Up in the last 7 days:20#22,565by Ahmad Awais6 years ago
Removes the WordPress dashboard widgets that are extra and useless for some users i.e. plugins, wp blog news etc
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Frame Breaker
#24,361by paulmac17 years ago
Adds a short javascript to your blog header to break out of any containing frames
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove 'Try Gutenberg' callout
Down in the last 7 days:67#24,429by neojp8 years ago
Starting WordPress 4.9.8 a new 'Try Gutenberg' callout will be displayed, use this to disable such message. http://bit.ly/2nbVRv7
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day