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Unlist Posts & Pages

by Nikhil Chavan

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Description

Unlisted means your post/page will not come up in search results or on anywhere else on your site. Only those who have the link of the post can view it just like any normal post on the site.

The Post could still be seen by anyone, but only if they guess the link!

The plugin updates MySQL query directly in WP_Query class of WordPress to leave out the posts which are unlisted by the user. As this modifies the core WP_Query, this also works very well with all the plugins which pull out posts/pages from database by using WP_Query, For eg. Posts slider plugins, Advanced Posts in Ultimate Addon for Beaver Builder etc.

Try it out on a free dummy site

Supported & Actively Developed

Need help with something? Have an issue to report? Get in touch. with us on GitHub.

Limitations Of the Plugin

  • WP_Query has an a flag to ‘Suppress’ the filters. If any plugin is using this flag when querying the posts then the unlisted post will not be hidden in that plugin’s output.
  • Similarly if any plugin is using a custom MySQL query, then the unlisted posts will not be hidden from it’s output.
  1. Go to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
  2. Search for Unlist Posts.
  3. Click Install Now next to the Unlist Posts plugin.
  4. Activate the plugin.

Just select option “Unlist Post” in any post of any type and that post will be hidden from the whole site, it can be only accessed if you have the direct link to the post.

Useful BUT not for a lot of posts

By djkano on August 24, 2025

If you want to unlist lots of very old posts you have to edit every article one by one. There's no a Bulk action in the posts lists to select various posts at once and mark them as unlisted. So if you have tens or hundreds of posts, it makes your life miserable. The action in Bulk checkboxes, could solve this.

Simple, clean and just works.

By jleahy on January 23, 2025

This is what WordPress plugins were intended for. Added and easy-to-use functionality.

Thank you.

Useful

By Game Bai Slot (gamebaislot) on May 10, 2021

Thankyou

Excelente plugin

By pedrojg on May 22, 2020

cumple con lo prometido es muy fácil de utilizar.

Works exactly as you'd wish.

By Oscar Gonzalez (rakxzo) on November 20, 2019

This is simple, easy to use and works exactly as you'd expect it. Hope it doesn't get forgotten with future updates.

Great, simple, easy to use1

By buckingc on October 25, 2019

Title says it all.

Works great!

By Nikola Papratovic (nikoslatoe) on October 10, 2019

Great, simple, small plugin, works as described. great for magazine sites where you need to send the link to the client where article preview can be made without logging into WordPress

Works

By matthewdhenderson on April 26, 2019

This does exactly what it says it does. Down at the bottom of the document settings there is a checkbox "Unlist this post?" Easy

Helpful little plugin

By deleted (lovesamla) on February 12, 2019

thank you!

¡Awesome! The best

By MCD Diseño Web (macsgv) on January 22, 2019

I wanted to thank you for this excellent plugin, because it integrates perfectly with WordPress v5.0.3 and it is very easy to hide certain pages and post that we do not want to be visible in the WordPress search engine. I was trying fragments of codes but they did not work as I wanted and searching and searching I found this solution that is very effective. Thank you very much for your time and effort to develop this excellent plugin that WordPress should have. Congratulations!

1.1.9

  • Improvement: Comments for unlisted posts were hidden, These should be displayed now.
  • Improvement: Make sure robots tag is noindex for unlisted posts when Rank Math plugin is active.

1.1.8

  • Improvement: Updated the description of the plugin (props @NekoJonez)

1.1.7

  • Fix: Support translations on translate.wordpress.org.

1.1.6

  • Fix: Unlisted post visible in preview/next post links.

1.1.5

  • Fix: Compatibility with Yoast SEO’s robots tags options. Robots tags from Unlist Posts will override tag changes from Yoast SEO.

1.1.4

  • Fix: Due to a bug unlisted posts were visible in the search results, which we have fixed now.

1.1.3

  • Deprecated: wp_no_robots() has been deprecated.
  • Security: Use escaping for displaying unlist post description.

1.1.2

  • Fix: Post metabox did not show the correct status if the post is unlisted or not in the classic editor.

1.1.1

  • Improvement: Added the WordPress 5.6 compatibilty.

1.1.0

  • New: Add post status filter to make it easier to find out the unlisted posts. (Props @matthewmcvickar #40)
  • Fix: Don’t save post status for the revision posts.

1.0.4

  • Fix: unlist posts does not work in Ajax callbacks. (props @makovetskiy)

1.0.3

  • Fix: duplicate post ids being saved in the options array.

1.0.2

  • New – Exclude the posts from wp_list_pages()

1.0.1

  • New – Hide a page from search engines if it is unlisted.
  • New – Hide the post from comments query if it is unlisted.
  • Updated code architecture to be PHPCS compatible.

1.0.0

  • Initial Release.
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