Advanced Category Excluder is the #60 ranked search app on WordPress, with a 3.3 average rating from 16 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Advanced Category Excluder is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by DjZoNe. With a rating of 3.3★ from 16 reviews, it currently ranks #60 in the Search category.
AppRanks data: Advanced Category Excluder ranks #60 in Search on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 12% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
Generated from live marketplace data — refreshed daily
Advanced Category Excluder is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Search category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 16 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by DjZoNe — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.3★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (16) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Advanced Category Excluder works
This plugin was born because there was a no other real alternative to enable content sparationd and some CMS like functionalities in WordPress.
The main goal was, to enhance WordPress’s functionalities, to hide some unwanted categories, from defined parts of the blog.
Today, ACE can override your search results, your RSS feed listing, your category listing, your recent post, and recent post widgets and also your entry page, or even hide whole categories of posts from web crawlers if you want to.
This is great, for SEO reasons, for content separation, for grouping information, and handle them as real sub pages.
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Some functions:
Integration with Google (XML) Sitmap Generator plugin
Effective category management
Effective content separation
Enables CMS-like functionality
RSS feed manipulation
Search result manipulation
Category list manipulation
Support for Event Calendar
Handles multiple link categories
noindex, nofollow web crawler options for robots – great for SEO
Own Recent Comments, Recent Posts and Categories widgets have been added
Backward SQL compatibility with MySQL 4.0
Nice control panel, called ACE Dashboard
Localization added (swedish, french and hungarian translation included)
Bundeled POT file for translators
WordPress 2.7 UI
Category rankings
As of Sep 8, 2026See 90-day rank history for each category
Track daily rank changes, category shifts, and position volatility.
Competitors & alternatives
Advanced Category Excluder doesn't have curated competitor matchups yet. Other tracked search apps on WordPress:
Where Advanced Category Excluder stands in the Search category
Advanced Category Excluder ranks #60 of 536 apps in the Search category, placing it in the top 12% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Advanced Category Excluder?
Advanced Category Excluder is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.3-star rating from 16 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Search category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by DjZoNe.
Who uses Advanced Category Excluder?
Currently around 600 active stores have installed Advanced Category Excluder. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Search category on WordPress.
Where does Advanced Category Excluder rank on WordPress?
Advanced Category Excluder currently sits at position #60 in the Search category on WordPress. That places it in the top 11% of 536 apps tracked in the same category. Category positions are read from the live marketplace ranking and refresh on each scrape, so the number you see here reflects the most recent crawl rather than a long-running average.