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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April 6th, 2011 at 7:51 am
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April 28th, 2011 at 9:32 am
This solution is now obsolete since Wordpress 3 was released.
has now been replaced with…
‘menu-header’, ‘menu_class’ => ‘main-menu’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’ ) ); ?>
So now if you add your exclude, the code looks like this…
‘menu-header’, ‘menu_class’ => ‘main-menu’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘exclude’ => ‘YOUR_HIDDEN_PAGE_IDs_HERE’ ) ); ?>
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May 26th, 2011 at 2:47 am
I am trying to create a ‘child’ page for one of my ‘parent’ pages but it just doesn’t seem to work. On my blog admin panel on wordpress, I have a page called ‘kindergarten’ and when they click it, it will have 4 links: Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, & Science. I am working on Math right now. So, what I want to happen is that when people click on ‘Math’ it would lead them to another hidden page that’s not on the header that says ‘Addition’ and ‘Subtraction’. I heard that this is called adding Subpages. I’ve checked a TON of wordpress questions in the Q/A, but none seem to work. Please help!
June 7th, 2011 at 5:51 am
I need a Wordpress plug in that will allow me to use the first few lines of a post on a page and “hide” the rest under a link that will expand when I click it and show the rest of the post. Can anyone point me in the right direction? What I ma doing is creating my own shopping cart where I will list the product and its description and use a PayPal button for processing. The problem is that some of the products have very long descriptions, and I want to only show the first few sentences. I do not want each products to have its own page however. I just want the hidden text to expand downwards when the link is clicked. Thanks
June 7th, 2011 at 7:34 am
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June 27th, 2011 at 10:55 pm
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June 28th, 2011 at 2:34 am
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July 1st, 2011 at 3:33 pm
thanks for the tip I was trying to figure this out the other day. Who knew it would be so easy.
July 28th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I use Exclude Page Plugin for hiding pages. Very simple & the most convenient method.
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September 20th, 2011 at 12:12 am
Login to your Wordpress admin page. Select Pages from the left hand column. The pages will be listed. Move the mouse over the Shop page and it should show options to Trash or Edit. You can either Trash it or choose Edit and then Save Draft. If it is a draft page it will not appear on the blog.
September 20th, 2011 at 12:13 am
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September 20th, 2011 at 12:16 am
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.
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December 3rd, 2011 at 6:07 am
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I read in the wordpress codex that the draft pages are still indexed so even though they are hidden from the visitor you you may want to ensure that any draft pages are still on topic and high quility to help SEO.
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