This plugin will come handy for author who often accidentally click publish button when what what they realy want is save only.
As of April 2026, DC Hide Publish Button is a WordPress post plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Post Type Switcher.
This plugin will come handy for author who often accidentally click publish button when what what they realy want is save only.
This plugin hide publish button for Post and Page which status is Draft.
Publish button will shows when status change to Pending Review, or if you change Visibility state which will automatically change Post / Page status.
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
1.0.0
* DC Hide Publish Button first build
2.0.0
* Add move publish button to bottom feature
* Add confirmation on publish button click (only apply to publish and schedule, not update published post/page)
* Add show confirmation support built in wordpress multi language
* Ability to chose hide methode
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