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Ultimate Category Excluder

Ultimate Category Excluder allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and search results.

By Marios Alexandrou·Hide Category·Free
4.2(77 reviews)
·50K+ active installs·Updated 3 months ago
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As of April 2026, Ultimate Category Excluder is a WordPress hide category plugin with 50K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 77 reviews. It has been downloaded 550K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Downloads are up 30% this week. Top alternative: Hide Cart Functions.

4.2/577 reviews
50K+active installs
550K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011

Overview

Ultimate Category Excluder, abbreviated as UCE, is a WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and searches. Just select which categories you want to be excluded, and UCE does all the work for you!

Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.277 reviews
5 ★
58
4 ★
2
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5
2 ★
2
1 ★
10

Recent Reviews

Not great – too basic
by mikelidbetter·3 months ago

Very basic and only works on native Post categories from what I can see, I wanted to use it for WooCommerce categories. Unable to exclude/include a category from the native WP categories list. You must go into the actual plugin to do it.

Therefore it wasn’t at all useful for what I wanted. I would have given it zero stars if I could.

  • This topic was modified 3 months ago by mikelidbetter.
Killed my Elementor menus and footers
by georgepond·1 year ago

Warning to Elementor users. Do not install/activate this plugin!
I have an WordPress/Elementor website which has been live for months and I’ve used several plugins with it. Immediately after I activated Ultimate Category Excluder and tried to exclude one blog post category, ALL of the pages on the site lost their headers and footers.
That was a very scary moment!

The solution (after deleting this plugin!) is to change the site layout back to “Elementor Full Width.” For some reason, the Ultimate Category Excuder sets the site layout to “Elementor Canvas”… which hides the Header and Footer.

  • This topic was modified 1 year ago by georgepond.
It Works!!!!!
by CyberCobre·1 year ago

I’m thrilled to report that IT WORKS!!!!!!

Add a button to check all categories at once
by colnago1·2 years ago

Add a button to check all categories at once

EXCELLENT – does exactly what I needed
by JJNW·2 years ago

THANK YOU – does what it says – very awesome, very cool – THANK YOU!!!!

Download Trends

Today: 146Yesterday: 88This week: 531Period total: 26K

Compatibility

WordPress5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.7
86.0%
Other
8.6%
v1.1
5.5%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.7

  • Added option to disable category exclusion if request for posts is coming from authenticated API. Thanks to Daniel Jalkut (Red Sweater) (@redsweater) for providing the code.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Marios AlexandrouMarios Alexandrou
Plugin Info
Version
1.7
Last Updated
Dec 29, 2025
WP Requires
5.0+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
50K+
Downloads
550K+
Added
Feb 25, 2011
Business
Free

Tags

hide categoryhidden categoryhide categoriesexclude categoryexclude categories

Developer

M
Marios Alexandrou
7 plugins0.2M+ total installs
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