Is Hide My Dates free?

Yes, Hide My Dates is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Hide My Dates?

Hide My Dates has 400 active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Hide My Dates alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Hide My Dates include WP Meta and Date Remover, Hide/Remove Metadata, WP Author, Date and Meta Remover. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Hide My Dates work with the latest WordPress?

Hide My Dates has been tested up to WordPress 6.8.5. It requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 5.3+.

PluginSift

Hide My Dates

Name: Hide My Dates
Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Author: Flector

The plugin hides post and comment publishing dates from Google.

By Flector·Date·Free

5(6 reviews)

·400 active installs·Updated 10 months ago

Download Visit Homepage Compare

As of April 2026, Hide My Dates is a WordPress date plugin with 400 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Top alternative: WP Meta and Date Remover.

5/56 reviews

400active installs

15K+total downloads

12 yearssince 2014

Overview

The plugin uses a CSS hack to show the date – your visitors see it, but Google takes it for the “title” parameter of a “span” element and does not consider it to be a part of the page content. Therefore, the publishing date is not shown in the search snippet.

The plugin works with ALL themes now (from version 2.00).

If you liked my plugin, please rate it.

Read full description on WordPress.org