Ultimate Category Excluder
Healthy: Ultimate Category Excluder is maintained, has no open risk signals and no unpatched vulnerabilities.
| Ownership | 100 |
|---|---|
| Maintenance | 100 |
| Security | 100 |
| Support | 70 |
| Reputation | 85 |
Active signals
Facts we detected, with links to the source.
No open risk signals. Signals appear here when we detect an ownership change, closure, vulnerability or decline.
Ownership timeline
Who commits to the plugin's code on wordpress.org, over time.
| Marios Alexandrou | 9 Feb 2016 to 20 Aug 2026, 46 commits |
|---|
1 committer recorded. No ownership changes recorded since 3 Nov 2026.
Maintenance
- Last release
- 3 months ago
- Releases, 24 months
- 0
- Tested up to
- 7.1 current
- Requires PHP
- not stated supported 8.2+
| Q1 2024 | 0 |
|---|---|
| Q2 2024 | 0 |
| Q3 2024 | 0 |
| Q4 2024 | 0 |
| Q1 2025 | 0 |
| Q2 2025 | 0 |
| Q3 2025 | 0 |
| Q4 2025 | 0 |
| Q1 2026 | 0 |
| Q2 2026 | 0 |
| Q3 2026 | 0 |
| Q4 2026 | 0 |
Last release 20 Aug 2026. Tested with WordPress 7.1 (current).
Support
Support history appears after our first snapshots of the forum counts.
Security record
| Published | Issue | CVSS | Affected | Fixed in | Days to patch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Jan 2020 | Ultimate Category Excluder <= 1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery | 8.8 | <= 1.1 | 1.2 | n/a |
Source: Wordfence Intelligence.
Reputation
| Q1 2024 | 5.0 |
|---|---|
| Q2 2024 | 5.0 |
| Q1 2025 | 1.0 |
| Q4 2025 | 1.0 |
| Q3 2026 | 5.0 |
Average rating stayed at 5.0 between Q1 2024 and Q3 2026.
| 5 star | 59 |
|---|---|
| 4 star | 2 |
| 3 star | 5 |
| 2 star | 2 |
| 1 star | 10 |
- Not great - too basic · 1 star · 28 Dec 2025
- Killed my Elementor menus and footers · 1 star · 15 Mar 2025
- Killed my traffic · 1 star · 15 Sep 2022
Momentum
50,000+ active installs. History builds with each weekly snapshot.
| 4 May 2026 | 204 |
|---|---|
| 11 May 2026 | 561 |
| 18 May 2026 | 474 |
| 25 May 2026 | 393 |
| 1 Jun 2026 | 436 |
| 8 Jun 2026 | 1,780 |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 505 |
| 22 Jun 2026 | 554 |
| 29 Jun 2026 | 509 |
| 6 Jul 2026 | 506 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | 380 |
| 20 Jul 2026 | 487 |
| 27 Jul 2026 | 418 |
| 3 Aug 2026 | 503 |
| 10 Aug 2026 | 441 |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 578 |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 529 |
| 31 Aug 2026 | 530 |
| 7 Sep 2026 | 464 |
| 14 Sep 2026 | 558 |
| 21 Sep 2026 | 559 |
| 28 Sep 2026 | 408 |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 473 |
| 12 Oct 2026 | 514 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 826 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 719 |
| 2 Nov 2026 | 109 |
Weekly downloads over the last 4 weeks are 1% above the 27-week average.
Healthier alternatives
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No healthier plugin in the same category yet.
Facts
| Version | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| Author | Marios Alexandrou |
| Added | 25 Feb 2011 |
| Last updated | 20 Aug 2026 |
| Active installs | 50,000+ |
| Requires WordPress | 5.0 |
| Tested up to | 7.1.4 |
| Requires PHP | not stated |
| Category | Site Administration & Utilities > URL Redirects & 301 Management |
| Tags | hide category, hidden category, hide categories, exclude category, exclude categories |
Other plugins by this author: Real-Time Find and Replace, Virtual Robots.txt, RSS Includes Pages, Add Any Extension to Pages, Republish Old Posts, Enhanced Plugin Admin
Questions
Is Ultimate Category Excluder still maintained?
Ultimate Category Excluder was last updated on 20 Aug 2026. Its Canary status is Healthy.
Is Ultimate Category Excluder safe?
Ultimate Category Excluder has no open unpatched vulnerabilities on record. 0 vulnerabilities were published in the last 24 months. Its Canary status is Healthy.
Who owns Ultimate Category Excluder?
The wordpress.org author is Marios Alexandrou. Recent committers: Marios Alexandrou, planetmike, plugin-master. We have recorded no ownership change.
What can I use instead of Ultimate Category Excluder?
We have no healthier plugin in the same category on record yet.