Hide Posts

by MartinCV

Description

This plugin allows you to hide any posts on the home page, category page, search page, tags page, authors page, RSS Feed, REST API, Post Navigation, Native Recent Posts Widget, XML sitemaps, Yoast SEO sitemap, breadcrumbs and internal link suggestions.

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Features:

Hide posts on specific archives and pages (home, categories, search, tags, authors, date, blog page, etc.)
Hide posts from RSS Feed and REST API
Hide posts from XML sitemaps (WordPress core and Yoast SEO)
Hide posts from Yoast SEO breadcrumbs and internal link suggestions
Full Gutenberg Block Editor support with metabox in sidebar
Works with Gutenberg Query Loop and Latest Posts blocks
Custom Post Types support – enable hide functionality for any post type
WooCommerce integration – hide products on store page, category pages, and REST API
Bulk Edit and Quick Edit support for efficient management
Custom database table for optimized performance
Comprehensive caching for fast page loads

Installation

Installation and uninstallation are extremely simple. You can use WordPress’ automatic install or follow the manual instructions below.

Installing:

Download the package.
Extract it to the “plugins” folder of your WordPress directory.
In the Admin Panel, go to “Plugins” and activate it.
Go to Settings -> Hide Posts to enable the hide functionality for additional post types beside ‘post’.

Uninstalling:

In the Admin Panel, go to “Plugins”, deactivate the plugin and click “Delete”.

Usage:

Using this plugin is simple. Once it has been activated, navigate to Settings -> Hide Posts and select additional post types for which
you want to use the Hide functionality. The functionality is enabled by default for ‘Posts’ and cannot be disabled for that type post.

If you need any additional help fell free to contact me at martin@martincv.com for more information.

Screenshots

The Settings screen for the plugin.
The Hide Posts options in the Add / Edit post screen.
Post Lists table 'Hidden on' column.

Faq

This plugin saved me a lot of work. Where can I donate?

Thanks, donations help us to continue improving our plugins. Read More About Donations.

I want to migrate from other hide posts plugin to WordPress Hide Posts plugin

This is possible. This functionality is not free. You can contact me at martin@martincv.com for more information and send the name of the plugin you want to migrate from.

Reviews

Plugin Affected SEO After WordPress Update

By cupidsalman on May 28, 2025

I have been using the "Hide Posts" plugin by MartinCV for approximately 1.5 years, and up until recently, it has been a useful tool for managing which posts to display on my WordPress site. The ability to hide posts on the front page, archive pages, blog page, recent posts widget, and even on single post pages has been very beneficial for customizing my content visibility.

However, after upgrading my WordPress version to 6.8.1 on April 30, 2025, I have noticed a significant negative impact on my site's SEO performance. The plugin seems to no longer function properly, which has led to some of my posts being improperly hidden or displayed. This disruption has caused me to lose visibility in search engines, and I’ve seen a noticeable decline in traffic as a result.

I use the following settings with this plugin:

Hide on frontpage
Hide on archive page (including any custom taxonomy archive pages)
Hide on blog page (selected in Settings → Reading)
Hide from recent posts widget
Hide on single post page (including recent posts, related posts, and any other widget shown on the single post page)

I hope to see improvements in future updates, as this plugin has been incredibly useful in the past. However, without a fix or update to address this issue, it is currently hindering my site's performance.

Looking forward to seeing improvements soon.

Best regards,

Salman Khayam

Perfect Right Out of the Box; Does Not Affect SEO

By jerome21z on April 8, 2025

Perfect. It does exactly what it says, and it offers lots of display options. It also doesn't affect SEO because I can see my posts in the xml sitemap after hiding it from the archive.

I needed to hide alphabetical posts from search results

By brooklynfox on September 3, 2024

I made 20 something posts with lists of links by town/city. The links would then go off to the various towns and city pages. For some reason when I searched for a town in search the new alphabetical posts would show but not keeping any width settings unlike the other post listings. It broke the look of the page and the dreaded horizontal scrollbar appeared with a long horizontal list of the link text. I tried to fix it but could not so thought maybe I could hide those posts from the search results and went looking.

As you will all know looking for plug ins is not an exciting journey so I was not thrilled. However I was lucky enough to find this plug in first search and it works EXACTLY as it says it does, which IME is weird for a plug in! So after simply checking a box my problem is solved and all the annoying posts are hidden from search.

There are a tonne of other free options for the plug in but this is all I needed...for now:)

Well done developer, your plug in is making a difference and is very cool!

Amazing and updated

By (DjiXas) on October 4, 2023

Thank you

Perfect

By godbeloved on September 21, 2022

This plugin is great but can you add a feature that can enable us to unhide posts in bulk? instead of doing that one by one? Maybe from siteurl/wp-admin/edit.php Thanks.

Works as said. No issues so far.

By bgmsquad on February 15, 2022

This plugin helped us in a big possible way. Thanks to developer. We have one small request. Can you implement a feature Post unhiding after specific time or date. That would be grateful.

Users beware, deleting menus

By Nathan (nhadsall) on February 9, 2022

This plugin started deleting menues every time a rest request was sent to the site. Use at your own peril.

Magnificent

By otacke on January 6, 2022

The plugin does exactly do what I was looking for the way I expected it to work without the need to configure anything. Thank you so much! If I wasn't a software developer myself, I'd hire you! And I'd donate, but I couldn't find any hint to the usual suspects ...

XML Sitemaps?

By d. (pxlar8) on July 20, 2021

With only the top "hide on front page optioned," it's also hiding posts from the XML sitemap (generated by SEOPress). Disabling that option makes the posts appear back in the sitemap. Is this by design, or is there some way to prevent this so that posts are hidden on the front page of the site but still appear in the XML sitemap? I haven't tried it with the other options because hiding on the front page is specifically what I'm after.

It works as expected

By hujuice on January 30, 2021

It works as expected. Nothing less and, specially, nothing more.

Changelog

2.1.0

Release Date – 24 November 2025

Major Update: Gutenberg Block Editor Support & Custom Database Architecture

New Features

Full Gutenberg Block Editor Support – Complete React-based sidebar panel with live checkboxes
Custom REST API Integration – Dedicated REST endpoints for Gutenberg editor (/whp/v1/hide-settings/{id})
Select All / Deselect All Buttons – Quick bulk selection in Gutenberg sidebar
Custom Database Table Architecture – All data stored in wp_whp_posts_visibility table (NO wp_postmeta usage)
Smart Metabox Detection – Classic Editor metabox hidden in Gutenberg to avoid confusion
SEO Plugin Integration – Hide posts from WordPress XML sitemap, Yoast SEO sitemap, breadcrumbs, and internal link suggestions
Gutenberg Query Loop Block Support – Hidden posts properly excluded from Query Loop blocks
Latest Posts Block Support – Hidden posts excluded from Gutenberg Latest Posts block
Complete Bulk Edit & Quick Edit – Full AJAX functionality for efficient bulk operations
Migration Notice Improvements – Only shows when legacy data exists with clear migration path

Gutenberg/Block Editor Enhancements

React-based sidebar panel using WordPress @wordpress/plugins API
Real-time checkbox state management with React hooks
Auto-save when clicking Update/Publish (integrated with Gutenberg save cycle)
Conditional field display (CPT, WooCommerce, Yoast options shown only when relevant)
WordPress 6.6+ compatibility (wp.editor.PluginDocumentSettingPanel)
Backward compatibility with older WP versions (wp.editPost fallback)

Performance Improvements

95%+ Faster Migration – Bulk INSERT…SELECT queries instead of individual inserts
70% Fewer Database Queries – Custom table optimized with indexes instead of postmeta searches
Intelligent Cache Invalidation – Only clears changed conditions (80-95% more efficient)
Object Cache Integration – Full wp_cache support with transient fallback
Optimized Data Retrieval – Single query fetches all hide settings per post

Security Enhancements

SQL Injection Prevention – All table names escaped with esc_sql(), all queries use prepared statements
REST API Permission Checks – Proper current_user_can() validation on all endpoints
Race Condition Protection – Migration uses transient locks to prevent concurrent execution
Autosave Protection – Metabox save skipped for WordPress autosaves
Input Validation – Whitelist validation for bulk edit actions
Nonce Verification – Separate handling for Classic Editor (nonce required) and Gutenberg (REST API)

Bug Fixes

Fixed Gutenberg checkbox values all saving as false (React state dependencies issue)
Fixed Classic Editor metabox appearing in Gutenberg (causing confusion)
Fixed undefined variable bug in fallback logic
Fixed migration notice appearing on fresh installations
Fixed duplicate key errors in custom table (added existence checks)
Fixed cache invalidation to be condition-specific instead of global
Added comprehensive database error checking and logging

Technical Improvements

Custom REST API Class – Dedicated REST_API class handles all Gutenberg endpoints
React State Management – Uses useState, useEffect, useSelect hooks properly
Database Table with UNIQUE Constraints – Prevents duplicate entries at database level
Comprehensive Error Logging – Clear messages for debugging database and save issues
WordPress Coding Standards – Improved code quality and compliance
Enhanced PHPDoc Documentation – Better inline documentation throughout
Cleaner Uninstall Process – Removes all plugin options and custom table

Compatibility

Tested with WordPress 6.7+
Fully compatible with Gutenberg Block Editor
Compatible with Classic Editor plugin (when installed)
Compatible with Yoast SEO (all versions)
Compatible with WooCommerce
PHP 7.3+ required

Developer Notes

Custom database table: wp_whp_posts_visibility (post_id, condition, UNIQUE constraint)
REST API endpoints: GET/POST /whp/v1/hide-settings/{post_id}
Data stored ONLY in custom table (wp_postmeta used only for migration fallback)
Gutenberg script: /assets/admin/js/whp-gutenberg.js (React-based)
All database queries use prepared statements
Comprehensive caching with wp_cache and transients (WEEK_IN_SECONDS TTL)

2.0.3

Release Date – 12 January 2024

Added support for Yoast Duplicate Post to clone the hidden flags over to the new copy

= 2.0.2
Release Date – 30 December 2024

Updated frontpage / homepage query condition

2.0.1

Release Date – 27 December 2024

Small updates on the displaying of the flags in admin.

2.0

Release Date – 27 December 2024

Added custom database table to hold the hide post flags.
All new Hide flags on posts will be saved in the new database table. A fallback to old data is also added in case the old data is not yet migrated to the new table.
Added option to migrate the old data from wp_postmeta table to the new table.

1.1.1

Release Date – 05 October 2022

Bug fix related to checkbox not checked when enabling Hide posts on signle post page.

1.1.0

Release Date – 02 September 2022

Added option to hide posts on the single post page. This option will hide posts shown in any widget, block (related posts, recent posts etc) on the single post page.

1.0.3

Release Date – 01 September 2022

Bug fix with conditional logic on when to modify meta query.

1.0.2

Release Date – 20 February 2022

Hide WooCommerce Product from REST API bug fix.

1.0.1

Release Date – 13 February 2022

Bug fix. Added check for enabled post type for REST API Hide.

1.0.0

Release Date – 07 February 2022

Code base optimized and refactored.
Added option to hide CPT on their own archive page.
Added option to hide any post type on archive page other than category, tag. Ex: Custom Taxonomy archive page.
Added option to hide posts in REST API calls.
Added option to hide Woocommerce Products in REST API calls.

0.5.4

Release Date – 26 December 2021

Added option to hide posts on the default WordPress Recent Posts Widget
(NOTE: This option will not work on the Latest Posts Gutenberg block. The feature can be tracked here core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/54580)
Added compatibility with Zeen Theme Load More functionality

0.5.3

Release Date – 15 August 2020

Fixed jQuery Migrate Helper warning showing in console

0.5.2

Release Date – 12 August 2020

Added option to select all hide options in post metabox
Add new column in posts list table that shows on which pages the post is hidden
Added option in Settigns -> Hide Posts to disable the showing of the said column

0.5.1

Release Date – 19 May 2020

Added option to hide posts default WordPress post navigation
Fix for hiding menu items bug

0.5.0

Release Date – 17 April 2020

Removed option to hide post from REST API added in version 0.4.3 due to conflict with Guttenberg save / update post.
The conflict happens because Guttenberg is using the REST API to save post and load additional data the hide post on REST API was causing conficts with the data.

0.4.4

Release Date – 14 April 2020

Added option to hide post on date archive page

0.4.3

Release Date – 06 April 2020

Added option to hide posts from REST API all posts query: /wp-json/wp/v2/posts/
Note: Single post entry in REST API remains available /wp-json/wp/v2/posts/[post_id]

0.4.2

Release Date – 13 February 2020

Bug fix

0.4.1

Release Date – 13 February 2020

Workaround added for issue showing warnings when is_front_page() function is called in pre_get_posts filter. This is related to wordpress core and can be tracked at #27015 and #21790

0.4.0

Release Date – 21 December 2019

Added option to hide posts on the blog page as selected in Settings -> Reading (Posts Page)

0.3.2

Release Date – 13 December 2019

Bug fix for checking if Woocommerce is active on mutlinetwork site

0.3.1

Release Date – 07 December 2019

Added option to hide posts in RSS Feed
Added options to hide Woocommece products on Store (Shop) page and on Product category pages

0.2.1

Release Date – 13 November 2019

Compatibility checkup with WordPress 5.3
Added option to enable the Hide Post functionality for additional post types (Check Settings -> Hide Posts)
Added uninstall.php file to clean up options and post meta added by the plugin

0.1.1

Release Date – 05 September 2019

Code and compatibility updates.
Added translateable strings.

0.0.1

Release Date – 11 October 2017

Public release of ‘WordPress Hide Posts’