How to Exclude Pages from Wordpress Nav Bar

I wanted to have a page that people could get to from a URL only and if you make the page private in the admin option then this will remove the page from the menu, and you will be able to access it by entering the URL. However take note that when you log out you will not be able to see the page contents. This also goes for you users.

So if you want to publish a page that public people can see full content from just hitting a URL then you need to publish it and then exclude it from the navigational function. Find your function.php and then modify the code. Wordpress creates the menu with this function: wp_list_pages();

You can either remove that function and add your own links, or add the “exclude” argument to wp_list_pages(); like this: wp_list_pages(‘exclude=1,2,39′);

The numbers are the page id’s. You can find the page id from the manage pages section of your wordpress blog admin. This method however did not work for me as my nav menu have a drop down ability. So I had to code it like this.

wp_list_pages(‘include=1,2,39&title_li=’);

You can read about all the options on this Wordpress Development Page

Good luck in coding your page.