{"id":72946,"date":"2012-02-28T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=72946"},"modified":"2015-02-01T23:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T04:42:28","slug":"plugins-to-hide-wordpress-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/plugins-to-hide-wordpress-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Plugins to Help You Hide WordPress Categories in Multiple Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There may be times when you\u2019d like to either hide categories from a list or even hide posts from certain categories. And for even more control, you may want to hide posts from certain categories, but only from users with a certain permission level.<\/p>\n<p>And so if it&#8217;s hiding you seek, the three plugins below will allow you to do all of these things and more.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Hide Posts from a List &#8211; Categories Widget Management<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to hide a category from your automatically generated list of categories, then the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/easy-categories-management-widget\/\" target=\"_blank\">Easy Categories Management Widget<\/a> plugin will do the trick for you. In addition to letting you hide categories from the list, it also lets you show the number of posts in a category, hide or show empty categories, and determine the maximum number of categories to show in your list.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[72946]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/3-plugins-to-help-you-hide-wordpress-categories-in-multiple-ways\/widget-settings\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72949\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72949\" title=\"widget-settings\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/widget-settings.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"678\" height=\"558\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Show Posts from Selected Categories on Your Front Page, Archives, and Feeds<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Categories Widget Management plugin above hides the names of categories in lists; however, the posts still show up where you would expect them to.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/frontpage-category-filter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage Category Filter<\/a> plugin lets you prevent posts from selected categories from showing up on your front page, on archive pages, and in feeds.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[72946]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/3-plugins-to-help-you-hide-wordpress-categories-in-multiple-ways\/frontpage-category-filter-settings\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72950\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72950\" title=\"frontpage-category-filter-settings\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/frontpage-category-filter-settings.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"678\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Hide or Show Categories Based on User Roles<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/capa\/\" target=\"_blank\">CaPa Project<\/a> plugin lets you hide or show categories based on user roles (Editor, Author, Contributor, etc.). It also gives you the option of displaying a message when a visitor without permission arrives on a post in a protected category. Or you can simply choose to hide everything, and a user will never know that the post even existed.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[72946]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/3-plugins-to-help-you-hide-wordpress-categories-in-multiple-ways\/capa-settings\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72951\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72951\" title=\"capa-settings\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/capa-settings.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"677\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[72946]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/3-plugins-to-help-you-hide-wordpress-categories-in-multiple-ways\/capa-protected-category\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72952\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72952\" title=\"capa-protected-category\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/capa-protected-category.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"677\" height=\"518\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hide your categories and\/or their posts in different places on your site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":205607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[152],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-72946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205608,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72946\/revisions\/205608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72946"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=72946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}