diff --git a/app/controllers/admin/plugins_controller.rb b/app/controllers/admin/plugins_controller.rb
index 516c1e05607..3221d104bba 100644
--- a/app/controllers/admin/plugins_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/admin/plugins_controller.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 class Admin::PluginsController < Admin::AdminController
 
   def index
-    render_serialized(Discourse.plugins, AdminPluginSerializer, root: 'plugins')
+    render_serialized(Discourse.display_plugins, AdminPluginSerializer, root: 'plugins')
   end
 
 end
diff --git a/lib/discourse.rb b/lib/discourse.rb
index 0673e1f119f..52a166e63fc 100644
--- a/lib/discourse.rb
+++ b/lib/discourse.rb
@@ -164,6 +164,14 @@ module Discourse
     @plugins ||= []
   end
 
+  def self.hidden_plugins
+    @hidden_plugins ||= []
+  end
+
+  def self.display_plugins
+    self.plugins - self.hidden_plugins
+  end
+
   def self.plugin_themes
     @plugin_themes ||= plugins.map(&:themes).flatten
   end
diff --git a/lib/plugin/instance.rb b/lib/plugin/instance.rb
index 3a12e02df4f..81b7d7e2434 100644
--- a/lib/plugin/instance.rb
+++ b/lib/plugin/instance.rb
@@ -493,6 +493,10 @@ JS
     PluginGem.load(path, name, version, opts)
   end
 
+  def hide_plugin
+    Discourse.hidden_plugins << self
+  end
+
   def enabled_site_setting_filter(filter = nil)
     if filter
       @enabled_setting_filter = filter