WP Hide Post: WordPress Plugin

July 14, 2009
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This plugin enables the author to write posts/pages that are hidden on some parts of your blog, while still visible in other parts as well as to search engines. If you’ve used the WP low Profiler plugin before, this is the same plugin with a new name. WP low Profiler is deprecated in favor of this plugin.

Description

This plugin excels in giving you full control over the visibility of your a post. By default, any post you add to your WordPress blog will become the topmost post, and will show up immediately on the front page in the first position, and similarly in category/tag/archive pages. Sometimes, you want to create a “low-profile” addition to your blog that doesn’t belong on the front page, or maybe you don’t want it to show up anywhere else in your blog except when you explicitly link to it. This plugin allows you to create such “hidden gems”.

In particular, this plugin allows you to control the visibility of a post in various different views:

  • The Front Page (Homepage, depending on your theme, this may not be relevant)
  • The Category Page (listing the posts belonging to a category)
  • The Tag Page (listing the posts tagged with a given tag)
  • The Authors Page (listing the posts belonging to an author)
  • The Archive Pages (listing the posts belonging to time period: month, week, day, etc..)
  • The Search Results
  • Feeds

The posts will disappear from the places you choose them to disappear. Everywhere else they will show up as regular posts. In particular, permalinks of the posts still work, and if you generate a sitemap, with something like the Google XML Sitemaps the post will be there as well. This means that the content of your post will be indexed and searchable by search engines.

For a WordPress page, this plugin also allows you to control the visibility with two options:

  • Hide a page on the front page (homepage) only.
  • Hide a page everywhere in the blog (hiding the page in the search results is optional).

This means, technically, whenever pages are listed somewhere using the get_pages filter, this plugin will kick in and either filter it out or not according to the options you choose. The same rules apply regarding permalinks and sitemaps as they do for regular posts.

“WP Hide Post” plugin is a great tool in your arsenal for SEO optimization. It allows you to add plenty of content to your blog, without forcing you to change the nature and presentation of your front page, for example. You can now create content that you otherwise would be reluctant to add to your blog because it would show immediately on the front page, or somewhere else where it would not belong. It’s a must-have feature of WordPress.

Please enjoy this plugin freely, comment and rate it profusely, and send me feedback and any ideas for new features.

Installation

  1. Upload the wp-hide-post folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
  3. That’s it!! Now whenever you edit a post/page or create a new one, you will see a small panel on the bottom right of the screen that shows the applicable options.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this plugin do?

It enables you to create posts/pages that can be hidden (temporarily or permanently) from the homepage, feeds and/or other places. The post/page will remain accessible normally through other means, such as permalinks, archives, search, etc… and thus will remain visible to search engines.

How can I make a post or a page private so that no one can see it?

If you want to make a post/page completely private you don’t need this plugin. WordPress supports options such as private and/or password-protected posts/pages out of the box.

Can I make a post or a page *hidden* for a while, but then make it normal again?

Yes. The hidden flags are just another set of attributes of a post/page. They can be added or removed at any time, just like editing anything else about the post.

I have an idea to improve this feature further, what can I do?

Please contact me on my blog An Apple a Day. I’m looking forward to hearing any suggestions.

I just found something that doesn’t look right, do I just sit on it?

By all means no! Please report any bugs on my blog An Apple a Day. I’d really appreciate it. This is free software and I rely on the help of people like you to maintain it.

I’m worried this could reduce my search engine ranking. Is it gonna?

Not at all. On the contrary. All the content you include on your blog, even though it’s not directly accessible from the homepage for example, it’s still to be available when search engines crawl your site, and will remain linkable for those individuals that are interested in it. Furthermore, if you use some sitemap generation plugin (like the Google XML Sitemaps plugin I use on my own blog) all the content will be published to web crawlers and will be picked up by search engines. In fact, this plugin will make your SEO more effective by allowing you to add content that you wouldn’t otherwise want to show on your homepage.

I used the ‘WP low Profiler’ plugin before. This one sounds just like it.

This plugin is the new version of the ‘WP low Profiler’. The name has been changed, but the functionality and codebase is identical. In fact, once you activate this plugin, it will upgrade the existing ‘WP low Profiler’ plugin and take its place. The last version of ‘WP low Profiler’, 2.0.3, corresponds to the first version of ‘WP Hide Post’, 1.0.3.

I already have ‘WP low Profiler’ installed and activated. What’s going to happen to it?

‘WP Hide Post’ will take the place of ‘WP low Profiler’. Once ‘WP Hide Post’ is activated, ‘WP low Profiler’ is deactivated and deleted. All its data is imported first, so you won’t loose any data.

I already have ‘WP low Profiler’ installed but it’s not activated. What’s going to happen to it?

Ditto. It will be deleted. If you had any existing data (if you had it active before) the data will persist.

Why did you change the name of ‘WP low Profiler’ ‘to WP Hide Post’?

‘WP low Profiler’ wasn’t descriptive enough of the functionality of the plugin. Being ‘low profile’ could mean many things to many people. It was hard to find and many people who needed it didn’t know it exists because of that.

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  1. Sal Carrillo on August 11, 2010 at 8:04 am

    Hi,

    I have a feature request for the WP Hide Post Plugin. The feature is a “Schedule Post visibility”. Similar to the scheduling of a draft for publishing, I’d love to have the availability to schedule the visibility of a post/page. For example I have a post that is live in a category but hidden on the homepage. I would like to schedule it so that it appears on the homepage on the date and time I schedule.

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  2. Pablo on July 22, 2010 at 4:43 pm

    Does not function with the plugin Pages Posts.
    While only the option ‘hide from frontpage’ is ticked
    it also hides the post from category (which functions
    on a static page thanks to another plugin).

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  3. Jaroslav on July 22, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    Great plugin, thanks!
    + check all button feature request ;)

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  4. Oliver on July 11, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    Hey, I want to use this plugin, but it doesn’t do anything!
    I checked all the “hide” boxes for my posts but nothing was hidden!
    Please let me know what to do to fix this.

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  5. J Freshwater on July 2, 2010 at 6:05 pm

    I have a post with all of the hide boxes checked and it comes up in the next post link when viewing a single post.

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  6. Nathan Sudds on July 2, 2010 at 12:10 am

    Thanks for creating this plugin, I was wondering if there might be a way to add the ability to apply the setting to all subpages of a particular page? If you could build in that functionality it would be great. Also if there was a way to also hide the pages from a SiteMap too.

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  7. James on June 30, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    Hello
    I reported earlier that wp Hide post did not work on sub pages. I later discovered that the problem was my browser. After I restarted the firefox browser, the plugin worked fine. this plugin is fantastic.

    Thanks

    James

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  8. James on June 30, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    The functionality of wp Hide post is wonderful. However, I run into difficulties when I used it on sub pages. I chose the option to hide on all pages. However, when in the parent page, the sub pages that I had hidden would be visible in the tab, making it clickable. This was a thank you page that I wanted to hide.

    Thanks

    James

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  9. MarciaH on June 29, 2010 at 6:11 pm

    Hello and thank you. Unfortunately, it’s not doing the whole job I need it to do. I have grouped “testimonials” posts onto a page I call “testimonials.” And I didn’t want these to show up on my Home page (a static page) in the “recent posts” widget or in the archives or the blog index page. I’ve checked off all the boxes except for search engines and feeds.

    It succeeded in removing/hiding the testimonials from the recent posts widget on the home page.

    It succeeded in removing/hiding the testimonials from the archives page.

    But if failed to hide them from the blog index page. There they still remain.

    Did I do something wrong? Is there a way to make it work there? I’m using the Headway Theme Framework.

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  10. Warren Laidler on June 15, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    Very helpful plugin. U’d been fiddling around with the query_post(); function to no avail. I installed the plugn and it works perfectly.

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  11. pxlar8 on June 15, 2010 at 10:42 am

    In case anyone is using some of the Woothemes, several of them use a special new Home page to activate some of the templates. In that case, the fix Ike posted above works:

    FIX: Edit the WP Hide Post plugin code to change all instances of “is_front_page()” to “is_home()”. There are multiple appearances through the plugin file–make sure to replace all of them.

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  12. Frances on June 15, 2010 at 8:18 am

    posts that have been marked as “hidden” for every box available are still showing.

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  13. Plesa on June 9, 2010 at 1:13 am

    I’ve been using Hide post for only a day but it was exactely what I needed.

    There is one small bug in the dashboard though: when I check the button “hide from homepage” the action also selects by itself the default category for the post, so I have to unselect it and then publish.

    Thanks again for this plugin!

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  14. Aiden Chong on June 6, 2010 at 1:02 am

    Hi Robert,

    It’s Aiden here. I found out your plugin and it’s really a relief, as I was initially trying to hide PAGE not posts.

    Now this plugin has two functions, to hide pages and posts. PERFECT!

    However, there is 1 bug I found, which is the “recent posts” bug.

    Even though I have selected all of the necessary boxes to hide my post from all of the selected box, it still shows up on my homepage, under the “Recent Posts” widget.

    Can you please fix that up for me?

    Thanks a lot man.

    Aiden Chong

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  15. pitou on May 28, 2010 at 2:38 am

    Hi,
    It was a big confusion between two different plugins, the plugin called “HidePost” and you plugin called “WP Hide Post”
    Now I found the right plugin , the “Hidepost” plugin and their options.
    It works…..

    Thank you and sorry for the confusion.

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  16. Jacob Krueger on May 25, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    Having a problem. It seems the hide plugin only works if I publish as “public”. I’m trying to hide something that requires a password, but if I publish as password protected the plugin doesn’t work.

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  17. pitou on May 24, 2010 at 1:39 am

    Hello,
    I am interested in your plugin but unfortunately when using it I have problems.
    Please could anybody tell me why?
    This is the explanation on how I try to use it:
    I did the following post exemple:
    Part visible for public

    [hidepost]

    Part just visible for subscribers

    This is a test of private part of the post

    [/hidepost]

    And I get this:
    Test private article

    Published by Pitou

    Part visible for public

    [hidepost]

    Part just visible for subscribers

    This is a test of private part of the post

    [/hidepost]

    Please could you tell me
    1) Why it takes the tags [hiden] and [/hidepost] as a text?
    2) Why it didn’t hide the part of the content of the comment?
    In fact I would like to use it just to let members (administrator to subscribers people)to see all the post including the hidden part of the post and not for all users especially non members.
    Thank you to tell me how to use this plug-in.

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  18. JohnH on May 20, 2010 at 12:53 am

    Thanks for making a cool plugin. I see it mentioned in other comments, but it would be so awesome if WP Hide Post options would be available in Bulk Edit Posts.
    Thanks!

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  19. wow on May 14, 2010 at 7:46 pm

    doesnt even really hide the archives… gg

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  20. Saxamo on May 14, 2010 at 5:22 pm

    Thanks for making this plugin it really comes in handy. I was wondering if you could add one option to the list or a version that just has this one option to save on page space.

    Hide all ( Hides it from everyplace on the site )

    When I want to hide something I want it hidden from the whole site but still in my list. I could just make it a draft again, but I like the hide option better.

    Kind regards,
    Saxamo

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