Ultimate Category Excluder allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and search results.
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.
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!
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.
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.
I’m thrilled to report that IT WORKS!!!!!!
Add a button to check all categories at once
THANK YOU – does what it says – very awesome, very cool – THANK YOU!!!!
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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