WP Hide Post: Wordpress Plugin

By robert | 07/14/2009 12:27 am | 90
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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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90 Comments on “WP Hide Post: Wordpress Plugin”

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  1. marion
     |  February 8, 2010 @ 1:56 pm

    Hi Robert,

    Aside from this being available under the individual post, please if you could also make it possible to have your plugin available under Bulk Actions –> Edit…..Thanks

    Marion

    Reply
  2. David North
     |  January 29, 2010 @ 6:37 pm

    When you say to hide in search results. I asusme that is the local wordpress search and does not prevent the page from showing up in Google or other search engines.

    I my case I would like to prevent that as well.

    Reply
  3. jig
     |  January 29, 2010 @ 5:37 am

    Love the plugin. It worked perfectly when I installed it. However, all of a sudden it stopped displaying the ‘exerpt’ from the posts.

    Can anyone help here ?

    Reply
  4. Marcus Baker
     |  January 26, 2010 @ 1:54 pm

    I am not seeing the screen shot options you show on this page, just a very simple box that does not provide me with the options the screenshots do. Please advise. Thanks.

    Reply
  5. Marcus Baker
     |  January 26, 2010 @ 1:16 pm

    Thanks for a great plug in.

    Marcus

    Reply
  6. Mike
     |  January 21, 2010 @ 11:04 am

    Love the plugin — thanks for writing it!

    I am successfully hiding posts only in the “Category” display,however, if I view a category in which all posts are hidden, I see the category description with the standard “Not Found: Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here” loop error message.

    I know I can modify the template but just wondered if you had considered this scenario in your development. I searched through the posts here, but evidently, nobody else has asked you this.

    Thanks!

    Reply
  7. Carl
     |  January 21, 2010 @ 8:20 am

    Question,

    I’m trying to hide a page. In other words, I want the page to be seen only by a select group of people. I don’t want the public to see the page in the navigation header or anything. However, when I tried using the hide page option, it was not working at all. Is this a bug? The hide post option works great, but I’m concerned about the hide page option. What to do?

    Reply
    • Robin
       |  January 27, 2010 @ 4:06 pm

      Hi, I’m having a similar problem- I have the plug in working fine on several themes but the page is still showing up on the main navigation when I use the “Alibi” theme.

      any suggestions?

      Reply
  8. Carl
     |  January 21, 2010 @ 5:16 am

    The hide page feature is not working. I tried the options, but it’s not working. What do I need to do? Is this a bug?

    Reply
  9. Carl
     |  January 21, 2010 @ 5:15 am

    Question,

    I love the hide post feature, but the “hide page” is not working for me. How do I hide pages to prevent them from showing on the homepage top main navigation page(i.e.:right by the home and about tabs. I want to hide a specific page tab permanently). I tried the “hide page” options, but the page won’t hide. Is this a bug? What can I do?

    Reply
  10. Carl
     |  January 20, 2010 @ 7:29 pm

    Amazing Plug-in. I can finally start my email campaign. Thanks.

    Reply
  11. sally whitfield
     |  January 19, 2010 @ 7:48 pm

    i love the plugin except the post shows up on the “last posts” widget AFTER the main page … if I go to anyother page, the post is on the widget :(

    Reply
  12. Charles Adams
     |  January 19, 2010 @ 8:57 am

    Your plug-in is interfering with Organize Series. When I activate your plug-in, the series pages no longer show up. I get a NOT FOUND. When I deactivate your plug-in everything goes back correctly.

    Reply
  13. Jon Squires
     |  January 18, 2010 @ 4:43 am

    Hi the plugin works great on pages but the panel does not appear when I edit or create a post. Can you help please?

    Reply
  14. Expresate
     |  January 12, 2010 @ 4:01 am

    Hi,

    I have no much of experience on this matters, but I have tried all the possible solutions posted in here, to make the Plug in of “Hide in Front Page” to work on my web-site. and nothing works, the plugging is activated and marked as well. what else can I do? is there any problem with the plug in. I really need some help.! Do I have to go to the Edit “HTML” options?

    Thank you!

    Reply
  15. LoveyourPlugin
     |  January 8, 2010 @ 2:05 pm

    Love ur plugin hehe, but i have a problem in adding default check to the front page.. I tried editing this line but cant get it to work so that it will check it automatically…

    <input type="checkbox" id="wplp_post_front" name="wplp_post_front" value="1"/> 
    <input type="hidden" name="old_wplp_post_front" value="”/>

    Reply
  16. Ben
     |  January 7, 2010 @ 12:07 pm

    I like your plug in, but have a question.

    I have my posts set up so that they show up under a certain page(Trade Signals). For 90% of my posts, that is where I want them to go. However, a few posts, I only want to show up from my side bar under “Articles”. Is there a way to choose exactly where my posts show up on my site? On different pages, no pages etc.

    Thanks,
    Ben

    Reply
  17. ike
     |  January 6, 2010 @ 6:36 pm

    I fixed the problem myself. For anyone interested replace is_front_page() in the addin with is_home() and the add-in will work for those who use a static page as their front page.

    Reply
  18. ike
     |  January 4, 2010 @ 8:24 am

    Hello, love your plug in although I have a small problem. My post page isn’t my “front page”, it doesn’t seem to hide them here. Is there a change I can make?

    Reply
  19. enuh
     |  January 1, 2010 @ 11:17 am

    Hi, I tried installing your plugin but I got the following error message:

    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/content/d/i/p/diphad/html/boyojo/wp-content/plugins/wp-hide-post/wp-hide-post.php on line 154

    I was wondering if you could help me figure this out. Thank you in advance.

    Reply
  20. dfc
     |  December 14, 2009 @ 4:20 am

    great idea, but doesn’t work for me…

    Reply
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