Ultimate Category Excluder
Ultimate Category Excluder allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and search results.
- Active installs
- 50,000+
- #768 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 566.8K
- 566,780
- Downloads, 30 days
- 2.6K
- 788 in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5
- 78 reviews
- Last updated
- 2 months ago
- Aug 20, 2026
- Version
- 1.7
- 5 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | August 20, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | Not stated |
| First published | February 25, 2011 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
4.3 / 5 from 78 reviews
| 5 stars | 59 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 2 |
| 3 stars | 5 |
| 2 stars | 2 |
| 1 star | 10 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Ultimate Category Excluder, abbreviated as UCE, is a WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and searches. Just select which categories you want to be excluded, and UCE does all the work for you!
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
When I go to my search results page for any search I do, I get this PHP error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-content/plugins/ultimate-category-excluder/ultimate-category-excluder.php on line
Go into your “Category Exclusion” settings, choose at least one option from the Searches column, save settings, then go back and clear that option and save again.
Latest changelog entry
- Added option to disable category exclusion if request for posts is coming from authenticated API. Thanks to Daniel Jalkut (Red Sweater) (@redsweater) for providing the code.
Screenshots
Check the categories you want to exclude.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.