Stealth Publish
by Scott Reilly 5 (11 reviews)

Stealth Publish

Prevent specified posts from being featured on the front page or in feeds, and from notifying external services of publication.

Stealth Publish ranks #7,183 among WordPress.org plugins with 900+ active installations, a 5/5 rating from 11 reviews, and was last updated Apr 13, 2016. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.5 (Current: 7.1.1)
v2.6 Current Version v2.6
Updated 10 years ago Last Update on 13 Apr, 2016
Refreshed 7 hours ago Last Refreshed on
Top 10% by installs No update in over a year
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Rank
#7,183
-5 this week
Active Installs
900+
-8%
KW Avg Position
N/A
No change
Downloads
30.4K
+3 today
Support Resolved
0%
No change
Rating
100%
Review 5 out of 5
5 (11 reviews)

Next Milestone 1K

Total Progress 70%
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Rank Changes

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Active Installs 0,000,000+
Growth +0.0%
Peak 0,000,000

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Reviews & Ratings

5.0
11 reviews
Overall 100%
5
11 (100%)
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Plugin Details

Version
2.6
Last Updated
Apr 13, 2016
Requires WP
3.6+
Tested Up To
4.5
PHP Version
N/A
Author
Scott Reilly

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Rating
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Reviews
11
Support Threads
0
Resolved
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to publish certain posts without drawing attention to them. It solves the problem of new posts being featured on the front page or in feeds and triggering pingbacks, trackbacks, and update service notifications.

  • Stealth publish checkbox on posts
  • Hides posts from front page
  • Excludes posts from feeds
  • Suppresses pingbacks and trackbacks
  • Blocks update service pings
  • Remembers stealth status on edits
  • Customizable meta key filter
  • Overridable default checkbox state

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Stealth Publish

This is probably the kind of thing that you would recognize the need for or you don't. It's beneficial in instances where you want to publish new content without any fanfare and just want the post added to archive and category pages and its own permalink page.
Yes. See the Filters section (under Other Notes) and look for the example using the 'c2c_stealth_publish_default' filter. You'll have to put that code into a site-specific plugin or your active theme's functions.php file.
The checkbox is always present since it continues to have an effect on published posts, such as preventing the post from appearing on the front page or in feeds. You may, after publication, decide to not have the post be stealthy. In such a case, you can do so directly by editing the post and unchecking the checkbox; you do not need to change it back to a draft and then republish it.
(This is a developer-level question that doesn't affect general users.) The plugin assigns a custom field of "_stealth-publish" with a value of "1" to indicate posts that are stealth published. Unless, of course, the name of the custom field was changed via use of the 'c2c_stealth_publish_meta_key' filter.
Yes.

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