Best unpublished plugins for WordPress
The most popular unpublished plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Hide Drafts in Menus leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Astro Hide Unpublished Post Types From Menu (fewer than 10). All 2 plugins tagged “unpublished” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 unpublished plugins
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Hide Drafts in MenusThe most installed unpublished plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
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Astro Hide Unpublished Post Types From MenuFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
All 2 plugins tagged “unpublished”
Hide Drafts in Menus
Up in the last 7 days:30#5,609by Room 34 Creative Services, LLC5 months ago
Hide unpublished pages in your custom menus.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Astro Hide Unpublished Post Types From Menu
Down in the last 7 days:14,103#68,177by Alian Schiavoncini2 months ago
Hides from menus all post_types that have a status other than published.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day