by Marios Alexandrou 4.3 (78 reviews)

Ultimate Category Excluder

Name: Ultimate Category Excluder
Rating: 4.3 (78 reviews)
Author: Marios Alexandrou

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

Ultimate Category Excluder ranks #761 among WordPress.org plugins with 50,000+ active installations, is #14 of 1,418 in the Taxonomy category, a 4.3/5 rating from 78 reviews, and was last updated Aug 20, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.1

v1.7 Current Version v1.7

Updated 4 weeks ago Last Update on 20 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 17 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#14 of 1,418 in Taxonomy Top 1% by installs Downloads -20.4% this week Actively maintained

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#761

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Active Installs

50K+

-5.1%

KW Avg Position

1.4

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Downloads

563.2K

+34 today

Support Resolved

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Rating

86%

Review 4.3 out of 5

4.3 (78 reviews)

Next Milestone 60K

Total Progress 29.6%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.3

78 reviews

Overall 86%

59 (76%)

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10 (13%)

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

2 known vulnerabilities on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Dec 11, 2020

Ultimate Category Excluder [ultimate-category-excluder] < 1.2

Fixed in v1.2
Jan 8, 2020

Ultimate Category Excluder [ultimate-category-excluder] < 1.2

CVE-2020-35135 · Fixed in v1.2

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.7
Last Updated: Aug 20, 2026
Requires WP: 5.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1.1
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Marios Alexandrou

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.3
Reviews: 78
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

exclude categories exclude category hidden category hide categories hide category

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TL;DR

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This plugin is for WordPress site owners who manage categorized content. It solves the problem of excluding selected categories from appearing on the front page, archives, feeds, and search results.