How to hide pages from appearing on the Nav?

[mscappa 0]

I'm looking to create pages and not have them appear in the main nav. I thought there was an easy way to achieve this in WP, as you created a page, there was a dropdown to select whether you'd like it to appear in the nav or not. For some reason, this option does not appear for me with this theme. Am I missing something? Advice on how to achieve the same results? Thanks!

[wpfun 0]

Hi, There is a cool plug-in called pageMash. You can very easily manage the order, and visibility of the pages, and children pages too. Check it out

[mscappa 0]

thanks wpfun, unfortunately, it didn't work. it installed properly, but has a time out error every time I attempt to hide a page. What about to the core "hide page" WP functionality?

[cmunns 16]

You can edit the Wordpress function wp_list_pages in the header.php file http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages#Exclude_Pages_from_List

[mscappa 0]

Thanks Adam, looks like exactly what I need. However, I don't seem to have that function listed in my header.php file? I tried adding:

• <?php wp_list_pages('exclude=2,38' ); ?>

as illustrated on the link you sent, but that didn't seem to work. I assume because the function isn't there to begin with. Can you explain a bit further for me on how I can exclude certain pages? Thanks for all of your help!

[Andrew 207]

The best thing to do here is use exclude pages plugin.. its what we use on PageLines

[mscappa 0]

Worked like a charm! had it installed on one of my other sites, but forgot it was a separate plugin! Thought it was stock WP! once again, thanks for your support!