Last Updated Oct 12, 2023

How to Hide Pinterest Images in WordPress [No Code!]

Yikes, those cluttered Pinterest hover buttons are harshing your website's zen! ?

While you dig the traffic Pinterest sends to your WordPress blog, the default save buttons kind of make your WordPress posts and pages feel like a tween's bedroom.

Not a vibe.

But what if we told you there was a way to go all Marie Kondo on those distracting Pinterest images in your blog posts? ? Tidy up your WordPress theme while still cashing in on those juicy Pinterest clicks?

With the Tasty Pins plugin, you can easily hide Pinterest images in your WordPress posts and pages while still benefiting from sweet, sweet Pinterest traffic to your blog. This blog post will help you understand how to hide Pinterest images in WordPress using Tasty Pins.

Let's get to it! ?

Why hide Pinterest images in WordPress?

We get it — Pinterest is your BFF for driving blog traffic to your WordPress blog.

But sometimes, those default Pinterest hover buttons make your WordPress site feel cluttered and messy. Not to mention landscape photos just don't look good on Pinterest.

So, here are a few reasons you might want to hide Pinterest images in your blog posts:

Maintain your own sleek, custom-designed aesthetic. Those clunky hover buttons kind of disrupt your vibe.
Emphasize your original branded content. Default Pinterest images scream, “share me”!
Avoid visual clutter and distractions for your site visitors. You want them to find the image that represents your brand, not saved pins. So hide them except when they're on Pinterest.

So while you dig the traffic Pinterest brings, you don't have to let their default pin buttons clutter up your WordPress site.

You can easily hide 'em in your posts while still benefiting from Pinterest Pin shares!

How to hide Pinterest images in WordPress

Ready to learn the secrets of force-pinning hidden Pinterest images like a master? ?‍♂️

Tasty Pins makes this process easy. No HTML code necessary, which means anyone can do it!

Grab Tasty Pins and follow these steps to hide Pinterest images WordPress style:

First, head to the Tasty Pins pricing page and select the right plan for your WordPress needs. Complete your purchase to access your Tasty Pins account, where you can download the plugin under Downloads and jot down your License Key.

Next, in your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins → Add New and click Upload Plugin to choose the file you downloaded from your account. Install and activate it.

Then, go to WP Tasty → Dashboard, click Enter License at the top, and enter your key.

Next, go to your WordPress editor for the post you want to hide images on. And in the Tasty Pins meta box at the bottom, select a Pinterest-exclusive image from your Media Library.

Then, check the Force pinning of hidden images in the Tasty Pins settings.

Force pinning of hidden images in WordPress editor

Save your post and watch your hidden image only appear when users pin your post! Sneaky! ?

We'd also recommend setting your title and description so Pinterest users see the ones you want. Plus, setting the alt text can help improve your Pins. This helps optimize your Pinterest SEO by using keywords, phrases, and more to help boost it in Pinterest's search.

With Tasty Pins installed and following these steps, you'll be force-pinning hidden images on Pinterest in no time — driving traffic while keeping your site decluttered.

But this isn't the only way Tasty Pins can help your Pinterest strategy ?

The only WordPress Pinterest plugin you need

Tasty Pins doesn't just let you put hidden Pin images on your site. (That would be boring!)

This rockstar plugin can take your entire visual content strategy to the next level! From improving your Pinterest SEO to giving you a Follow box so people can follow you faster, Tasty Pins has it all.

Here are a few things that Tasty Pins can help you with on your website:

Set custom titles and descriptions for your pins. ✍️
Add hover buttons on your images for easy pinning every time. ?
Display a trendy Pinterest follow box to rack up new followers. ?
Disable pinning on your non-Pinterest images. ??
Get unlimited support to master all of Tasty Pins' tricks like a pro. ?‍?

Not bad, right? You don't have to juggle different image sizes in your WordPress Gutenberg posts anymore. Simply insert your images into the post, then let Tasty Pins do the rest of the Pinterest sharing for you.

Ready to make your Pinterest beautiful?

Pretty easy to do, right?

You don't have to worry about hiding pins because the image doesn't look right or isn't the right size. Now you have complete control over what images show on your Pinterest…and without leaving the Gutenberg editor!

So, if you're ready to get started, get Tasty Pins today and start building your Pinterest strategy. And if you're ready to keep learning about this beautiful Pinterest and WordPress connection, check out our guide on how to use Pinterest for blogging!

Comments

Ben Huber says:

August 28, 2018 at 4:39 pm

Hey Raquel,
10% off topic but what are the odds, in a future update perhaps, that a way to customize the default pin on hover button could be released.

(I like the fact that it reflects the Pinterest defaults but I’d love it the hover image could be slightly more prominent). The default Dev options allow for “some” customization (i.e. making it round/slightly bigger)…anything to make it slightly bigger :p

Thanks as always 🙂

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1. Raquel Smith says:
  
  August 30, 2018 at 12:03 pm
  
  Hey Ben! It’s a possibility, though it’s not currently in our dev pipeline. You can vote for the feature here to let us know how much demand there is for it! https://trello.com/b/b9WdbSUN/tasty-pins-feature-requests
  
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Alex Trembath says:

November 1, 2018 at 8:55 am

Hi Raquel. Very interesting article.
I want to ask whether it’s possible that adding this code to hide certain images from Pinterest can have a knock-on effect of negatively affecting SEO.
We tried the code on a few articles last week, and it’s possible this may just be coincidence., but we’ve seen a drop in our Google ranking position for our target keywords on those articles.
Is it possible there is a link between adding the code and losing our Google ranking position? Might it also prevent Google from seeing the images properly in some way?
Thanks for your help!

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1. Raquel Smith says:
  
  November 1, 2018 at 10:10 am
  
  Hey Alex,
  The attribute that tells Pinterest to not save an image is specific to Pinterest itself. `data-pin-nopin` is only used by Pinterest or other tools that save to Pinterest. I don’t think there’s any way that it would have an impact on your Google rankings – it’s most likely a coincidence.
  
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Lucero says:

January 17, 2019 at 2:13 pm

I have been searching for a couple of days for this info everywhere. And this post by far explains it very well. Other sites and Youtube videos don’t show an example as to where to place the code, they just give the code or they talk about hiding images that you do want to be pinned. Thank you so much. You just made my life easier.

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Ellen says:

February 7, 2019 at 4:30 pm

INteresting article, thank you. In the force-pinning section, you say “Read this article to learn more about force-pinning images in the content” but there isn’t a clickable link that I can see. What are you referring to when you say “this article”? I’d like to read what you have to say about force pinning.

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1. Raquel Smith says:
  
  February 20, 2019 at 8:30 am
  
  Thank you for bringing that up, Ellen! I added the link. Here it is for convenience, also: https://www.wptasty.com/force-pin-image
  
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Kate Benzin says:

April 1, 2019 at 9:04 pm

The Disable Pinning choice doesn’t appear for my content images. Has this changed?

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1. Raquel Smith says:
  
  April 2, 2019 at 1:08 pm
  
  Hi Kate! Nothing has changed – you should still be able to disable pinning in your content images. We’ll follow up with you from our support channel to help you get this worked out!
  
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Sarah Russell says:

September 16, 2019 at 10:29 pm

I tried the “Disable image” button on my site for images I didn’t want pinned, yet they are still coming up as an option! So far the plugin hasn’t been working as I hoped it would!

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1. Ann says:
  
  September 18, 2019 at 2:15 pm
  
  Hey Sarah! We’d be happy to look into this for you – can you write into [email protected]? Thanks!
  
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M @ On The Goe Blog says:

December 28, 2019 at 9:00 am

This was the best article that explained why anyone would want to hide their pins and how to do so. Thank you.
I wanted to ask, is there a blog post about reducing your image size in your blog. Pinterest requires a certain dimension for their pin but when I add in my Pinterest image to my blog post it’s entirely too big. How do I “shrink it down” and would this affect the image size for readers who want to re-pin the image to Pinterest? Thanks

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1. Katie Koteen says:
  
  December 30, 2019 at 12:27 pm
  
  Hey there! We do have an article on Pinterest image size you can read here: Pinterest Image Sizes. There you can find all of the best sizes to upload to your posts. There are several great WordPress plugins for compressing images. I recommend reading reviews and trying a few to find one that works best for your site.
  
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Sagor says:

March 18, 2020 at 11:22 am

I would like to share my amazon affiliate product on pinterest. And to have that I want to enable No-Pin feature in order to stay within spam guidelines. Now would you please let me know how can I be able to do so.
Plus please let me know if you any specific instructions to comply in order to promote amazon affiliate product.

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1. Katie Koteen says:
  
  March 19, 2020 at 5:06 pm
  
  Hey Sagor,
  Your first option is to manually add the data-pin-nopin="true" attribute, just as you would an alt tag to an image.
  
  You can also use the Tasty Pins plugin, which will add a checkbox to disable pinning of images in your posts.
  
  Hope that helps!
  
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