Title: Shy Posts
Author: Topher
Published: <strong>August 26, 2013</strong>
Last modified: May 13, 2019

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Shy Posts

 By [Topher](https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/shy-posts.1.3.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shy-posts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shy-posts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shy-posts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shy-posts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/shy-posts/)

## Description

Provides a checkbox on a post admin page to allow you to say that THIS post should
not appear on the homepage blog loop.

This only works if your blog is on your homepage.

Requires the Classic Editor.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The checkbox in the Publish box on the Post editing page

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload the `shy-posts` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Create new or Edit a Post.

## FAQ

  Why don’t you have more questions here?

I haven’t been asked any yet. 🙂

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Shy Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Topher ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/)

[Translate “Shy Posts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/shy-posts)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shy-posts/), check 
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/shy-posts/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/shy-posts/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/shy-posts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3.3

 * Added load_plugin_textdomain to allow translations
 * Check for WP 4.7

#### 1.3.2

 * Check for WP 4.0

#### 1.3.1

 * Minor bug fix regarding storage method

#### 1.3

 * Store shy post IDs in a transient
 * Make exclusion query use transient
 * New query is much MUCH faster
 * Various input sanitizations

#### 1.2

 * Make the checkbox be in the Publish box instead of a custom meta box

#### 1.1

 * Change pre_get_posts filter to an action
 * Change $query->is_home() to is_front_page()
 * remove !is_admin() check (is_front_page takes care of that)

#### 1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.3**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.2.24**
 * Tag
 * [posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shy-posts/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/shy-posts/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/shy-posts/reviews/?filter=4)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Topher ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/)

## Support

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