exclude from wp_list_pages with meta_value

Didn’t test this but something like this to get pages where custom field cf1 is equal to green:

<?php
$args=array(
  'showposts' => -1,
  'post_type' => 'page',
  'meta_key' => 'cf1',
  'meta_compare' => '=',
  'meta_value' => 'green'
);
$pages = get_posts($args);
if ($pages) {
  foreach($pages as $post) {
    setup_postdata($post); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
  } // foreach($pages
} // if ($pages
?>

Can anyone think of a better method?

$list_full = wp_list_pages(‘echo=0’);
$list_exclude = wp_list_pages(‘meta_value=XYZ&meta_key=ABC&echo=0’);
$the_list = array_diff($list_full, $list_exclude);

Thanks Michael. I’m looking to exclude items with meta_value green.

What does meta_compare do? Can I set that to be not equal and use it with wp_list_pages?

(I want to use wp_list_pages to utilize the class and hierarchy generated by WP)

thanks again…

So it seems like this will do the trick. I hadn’t seen meta_compare before.

<?php

$args = array(
‘meta_compare’ => ‘!=’,
‘meta_key’ => ‘Exclude_Page’,
‘meta_value’ => ‘Yes_Sir’,
);

wp_list_pages( $args );

?>

wp_list_pages exclude is based on page ID and I just don’t see how you could relate that to a meta value.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages#Exclude_Pages_from_List

Oh well, doesn’t work. I guess that meta_compare can’t be passed to wp_list_pages. that’s stinky. Back to the drawing board…

Build an array of post ids using the get_posts example then use that array with the wp_list_pages exclude argument.

You can use..

<?php
wp_list_pages( array('meta_key'=>'keyname','meta_value'=>'value') );
?>

However you can’t use meta_compare when using wp_list_pages as it only supports both meta_key and meta_value, but not meta_compare..
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_pages

get_posts is not documented as supporting meta_compare, but does look to support it(wp-includes/query.php – line 2146).

Use get_posts if you need the meta_compare parameter, as Michael suggested.

I believe that get_posts can use almost any argument listed in the query_posts() article.

Hi,

I’m trying something similar – exclude pages which don’t have the key/value of notmobile/notmobile.

I’ve tried loads of different ways, and just used MichaelH’s code above to come up with:

<?php
global $post;
$args=array(
  'post_type' => 'page',
  'meta_key' => 'notmobile',
  'meta_compare' => '!=',
  'meta_value' => 'notmobile'
);
$pages = get_posts($args); ?> 

<ul>
   <?php wp_list_pages('exclude'.$pages); ?>
</ul>

But it doesn’t exclude the pages ??

Any help would be sooo great!

Thanks!

origianlly posted here:

Will repeat from above:

Build an array of post ids using the get_posts example then use that array with the wp_list_pages exclude argument.

sorry to show up my limited knowledge, but I thought that’s what I did??

<?php
global $post;
$args=array(
  'post_type' => 'page',
  'meta_key' => 'notmobile',
  'meta_compare' => '!=',
  'meta_value' => 'notmobile'
);
$pages = get_posts($args);
if ($pages) {
  $pageids = array();
  foreach ($pages as $page) {
    $pageids[]= $page->ID;
  }
}
?>
<ul>
   <?php wp_list_pages('exclude='.implode(",", $pageids)); ?>
</ul>

I really appreciate you coming back so quickly on this. Unfortunately I get an error:

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in myurl/wp-content/themes/combined/desk_index.php on line 77

Line 77 being:
<?php wp_list_pages('exclude='.implode(",", $pageids)); ?>

This is beyond me to even guess…

Oops sorry, forgot to handle the situation where it finds NO pages with that meta_key/meta_compare/meta_value criteria:

<?php
global $post;
$args=array(
  'post_type' => 'page',
  'meta_key' => 'notmobile',
  'meta_compare' => '!=',
  'meta_value' => 'notmobile'
);
$pages = get_posts($args);
if ($pages) {
  $pageids = array();
  foreach ($pages as $page) {
    $pageids[]= $page->ID;
  }
 ?>
  <ul>
   <?php wp_list_pages('exclude='.implode(",", $pageids)); ?>
</ul>
<?php
}
?>