Is Hide from Search free?

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

How many websites use Hide from Search?

Hide from Search has 3.0K+ active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Hide from Search alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Hide from Search include Secret Content, Brilliant Easy Exclude Posts. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Hide from Search work with the latest WordPress?

Hide from Search has been tested up to WordPress 6.9.4. It requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+.

Is Hide from Search well supported?

Hide from Search has a 100% support resolution rate based on 1 recent support threads on WordPress.org.

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Hide from Search

Name: Hide from Search
Rating: 4.4 (17 reviews)
Author: Micah Wood

Hide individual WordPress pages from search engines and/or WordPress searches, such as confirmation and download pages.

By Micah Wood·Hidden Posts·Free

4.4(17 reviews)

·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 month ago

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As of April 2026, Hide from Search is a WordPress hidden posts plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 17 reviews. It has been downloaded 45K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 13% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Secret Content.

4.4/517 reviews

3.0K+active installs

100%resolved

14 yearssince 2012

Overview

The Hide from Search plugin allows you to hide individual WordPress pages from search engines and/or WordPress search results.

Why?

It isn’t uncommon to have pages on your site that are public, but not intended to be found. Take, for example, a download page where people who have signed up for your email newsletter can download your amazing white paper. You don’t want just anyone to be able to download your white paper, but the page has to be public because people who sign up for your newsletter aren’t going to be logged into your site. You can’t have people who perform a search for the title of your whitepaper finding it in search. The solution? Download this plugin and hide your download page from WordPress search as well as search engines!

How?

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Ratings & Reviews

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Recent Reviews

Potentially great!

by noodles101·1 year ago

I 100% agree with the previous reviewer below. 3 stars for a potentially great plugin. For 5 stars please add: Options to be selected in Quick Edit mode and also add a section under Settings where it is possible to exclude multiple pages, posts or whatever from google or WP searches.

Previous review:
Happy to adjust my rating if I’m wrong but currently it appears you need to enter Edit to apply any changes. I have the need to hide hundreds of pages in a very large website and it would be so handy if the options were placed inside the Quick Edit. Furthermore, it would be even more handy if you could then select multiple pages and edit them together.

Works, But is Hit or Miss

by bighrts·2 years ago

This plugin definitely works, but I find that it’s hit or miss. Using it with WordPress products, some products still show in search results even with the boxes ticked while others don’t. Not sure why the inconsistency is there.

Its good but hoping it could be better!

by oxign·2 years ago

Happy to adjust my rating if I’m wrong but currently it appears you need to enter Edit to apply any changes. I have the need to hide hundreds of pages in a very large website and it would be so handy if the options were placed inside the Quick Edit. Furthermore, it would be even more handy if you could then select multiple pages and edit them together.

Best in Category: Does an Excellent job! Thanks!

by gpowerhost·2 years ago

This plugin is well coded and maintained.

It’s FREE FROM: bloat, clutter, nagging messages, spam advertising (as some other plugins in this category are not.)

We’ve tested Hide from Search and it indeed does hide whichever you want: search engines and/or WordPress search results for any Posts/ Pages/ WooCommerce Products/ LearnDash Courses and all other Custom Post Types that we’ve seen (that are coded to the WordPress standards of posts/pages).

Our heartfelt thanks to, Micah Wood, the plugin author for being generous and continuing to make WordPress.org the wonderful open sourced enabler that allows individuals, businesses, organizations and educators all around the world to be able to build anything they want on the web, as well as or better than any other content management system!

Note: We have indeed tested all of the other plugins in this category listed on WordPress.org, prior to migrating 853 client sites (migration still in progress) from one of the other plugins that recently ruined a plugin they either purchased or took over by littering the WordPress Dashboard with spam advertisements and making the plugin unnecessarily bloated.

Great plugin!

by Eder Tuffic·4 years ago

I had tried another one and it didn’t work, this one worked perfectly!