The No.1 content separator, content manager, content excluder, sidebar widget manager plugin to enable CMS like functionality.
As of April 2026, Advanced Category Excluder is a WordPress rss plugin with 700 active installations and a 3.3/5 rating from 16 reviews. It has been downloaded 301K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: RSS Importer.
This plugin was born because there was a no other real alternative to enable content sparationd and some CMS like functionalities in WordPress.
The main goal was, to enhance WordPress’s functionalities, to hide some unwanted categories, from defined parts of the blog.
Today, ACE can override your search results, your RSS feed listing, your category listing, your recent post, and recent post widgets and also your entry page, or even hide whole categories of posts from web crawlers if you want to.
This is great, for SEO reasons, for content separation, for grouping information, and handle them as real sub pages.
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| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.6.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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