How to hide Pages in WordPress
Wordpress by default displays all the pages and the sub-pages you create in the main menu or the navigational menu of your blog. However, there are situations where we don’t want certain pages from being displayed on the main menu but still retain their functionality. Sometimes when you have too many pages in your blog, your navigational menu starts overflowing from one horizontal line into two and more …
In the article, I will tell you how you can hide pages in WordPress and prevent them from showing up on the navigational menu of your blog.
Method 1 : Write and save a page as a Draft
Yes, this simple method lets you retain all the functionality of a page. You can still access this page by searching for it and this page will still be accessible if you type in the URL of that particular page.
So, create a page as usual and then under Page Status menu on the right hand side, choose Draft and hit save
Method 2: Edit your theme’s header.php
* From your Wordpress Dashboard, go to Presentation and Theme Editor and then select header.php from the options on the right hand side
* Look for wp_list_pages() tag. You will usually find this under a div id of top nav or something else that represents your blog’s navigational menu. This tag usually looks like this <?php wp_list_pages(’title_li=&depth=-1′); ?>
* Now go to Manage and then choose Pages from your WordPress dashboard. Back under the header.php
<?php wp_list_pages(’title_li=&depth=-1=&exclude= 32,56,199‘); ?>
In the above code, I added =&exclude=32,56,199. The 32,56,199 represent the page IDs I want to hide from my navigational menu
Method 3: WordPress plugin to Hide Pages in WordPress
You can use the Exclude Pages WordPress Plugin by Simon Wheatley to hide pages in a WordPress blog. This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus).
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February 25th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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Thanks for this info. I had been looking for the last hour trying to hide one of the pages on my wordpress site and it was driving me crazy. So glad there is a plugin for this because I am horrible at code. Thanks again, and keep up the good work.
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I’m looking for a plugin that allows you to create multiple pages within a single post. Searching on WordPress’ site doesn’t work well because it keeps pulling up results for plugins related to actual WordPress pages.
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I want a Mootools-style accordion menu effect applied to the Pages menu in WordPress? Is there a plug-in or an easy solution to do this? I want to be able to use the parent pages as the menu, but hide the sub-pages of each parent in the accordion.
June 19th, 2009 at 10:57 am
You simply create the page via the Wordpress admin. Not posts. It will not appear on the front page, and will (or should appear) under a separate pages navigation.
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Im making a wordpress blog thats going to be more like a fan site than a blog and i was wondering if there was anyway to hide the thing that says like “Username’s Blog (ENTER) just another WordPress.com weblog” without paying the money to do a CSS code?
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February 17th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
I’ve always used the Exclude Pages plugin on my website which has worked particularly well for me. I didn’t realise that saving a page or post as a draft means that it’s still searchable though! I was trying to work out how to make a Featured Images plugin work to display images only from a category that I didn’t really want to link to anywhere so this could be a great way of doing that. I’ll give it a go!
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I always wondered if a draft post/page was searchable. Guess I’d better check out the Excludes plugin.