Hide Posts

I have been using the “Hide Posts” plugin by MartinCV for approximately 1.5 years, and up until recently, it has been a useful tool for managing which posts to display on my WordPress site. The ability to hide posts on the front page, archive pages, blog page, recent posts widget, and even on single post pages has been very beneficial for customizing my content visibility.

However, after upgrading my WordPress version to 6.8.1 on April 30, 2025, I have noticed a significant negative impact on my site’s SEO performance. The plugin seems to no longer function properly, which has led to some of my posts being improperly hidden or displayed. This disruption has caused me to lose visibility in search engines, and I’ve seen a noticeable decline in traffic as a result.

I use the following settings with this plugin:

• Hide on frontpage
• Hide on archive page (including any custom taxonomy archive pages)
• Hide on blog page (selected in Settings → Reading)
• Hide from recent posts widget
• Hide on single post page (including recent posts, related posts, and any other widget shown on the single post page)

I hope to see improvements in future updates, as this plugin has been incredibly useful in the past. However, without a fix or update to address this issue, it is currently hindering my site’s performance.

Looking forward to seeing improvements soon.

Best regards,

Salman Khayam

Perfect. It does exactly what it says, and it offers lots of display options. It also doesn’t affect SEO because I can see my posts in the xml sitemap after hiding it from the archive.

I made 20 something posts with lists of links by town/city. The links would then go off to the various towns and city pages. For some reason when I searched for a town in search the new alphabetical posts would show but not keeping any width settings unlike the other post listings. It broke the look of the page and the dreaded horizontal scrollbar appeared with a long horizontal list of the link text. I tried to fix it but could not so thought maybe I could hide those posts from the search results and went looking.

As you will all know looking for plug ins is not an exciting journey so I was not thrilled. However I was lucky enough to find this plug in first search and it works EXACTLY as it says it does, which IME is weird for a plug in! So after simply checking a box my problem is solved and all the annoying posts are hidden from search.

There are a tonne of other free options for the plug in but this is all I needed…for now:)

Well done developer, your plug in is making a difference and is very cool!

Thank you

This plugin is great but can you add a feature that can enable us to unhide posts in bulk? instead of doing that one by one?
Maybe from siteurl/wp-admin/edit.php
Thanks.