Hide/Remove Metadata
Hide/Remove Metadata is a free WordPress plugin that helps you hide author and published date either by CSS or PHP from your website effortlessly.
3.6(14 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Hide/Remove Metadata is a WordPress date plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 3.6/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 292K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 14% this week. Top alternative: WP Meta and Date Remover.
3.6/514 reviews
20K+active installs
292K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Hide/Remove Metadata is a free, simple yet extremely handy WordPress plugin that helps you hide or remove author and published date from your website effortlessly. The plugin is super easy to use and comes with only the essential features to hide or remove author and date. Simple and straight. There are times when you might not want to publicize the author’s name or the date when the article was published; Hide/Remove Metadata is perfect for situations like these. You can also choose to hide only one of them, either author or date. And if you want both of them to stay hidden, you can turn on the Hide option for both. Hide/Remove Metadata is extremely useful and takes less than a minute to set up. You can either completely or partially hide the author’s information and published date. Sele…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Doesn’t do anything at all
by anakinlaroche1977·2 months ago
Does nothing in css or php. Useless.
Did not work using the CSS options, but the PHP option worked well
by tbwriter·2 years ago
The CSS option didn’t do anything for my site, but when I selected the PHP option, it removed the date as it was supposed to.
It has an option to remove the author too, but I didn’t try that as I don’t want to remove the author information from my posts.
Thanks for making this plugin.
Working fine on WordPress 6.1.1
by susodp·3 years ago
PHP option remove the icon as well, working fine on WordPress 6.1.1
Din’t work for me.
by Izabela Wilson·3 years ago
Sadly didn’t work nor css or php either.
Doesn’t Work
by Patrick·4 years ago·2 replies
Just doesn’t work on my site
Download Trends
Today: 156Yesterday: 143This week: 976Period total: 54K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
58.9%
v2.0
40.3%
Other
0.8%
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Changelog
2.0 (Released: March 09, 2026)
- Bug Fixed : WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
- Bug Fixed: WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
- Bug Fixed: outdated_tested_upto_header
- Compatibility check up to version 7.0
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