A plugin to prevent unwanted shortcodes from showing on blog.
As of April 2026, Hide Unwanted Shortcodes is a WordPress shortcode plugin with 60 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
Have you ever switch theme or remove plugin and found that there is a lot of unwanted shortcodes left on blog, and they are showing up as [shortcode id="1234"] ? In order to remove them, you will need risky database queries which is not what you want or what you can handle properly.
Now you can use this plugin to prevent them from showing up on Blog. This plugin does not delete the shortcodes from your Database or Post Editor, instead it prevent them from showing up on Blog (Public View), by returning nothing to content.
You can easily add and save the unwanted shortcode tag name into the plugin setting page, and the plugin will
do the rest. There is no need to write any functions or database queries, the plugin will hide them base on shortcode tag saved.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Update to use PHP 5 constructor.
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