Exclude Pages from Menu using Twenty Thirteen theme

  • Hello,
    To start, my WP website is running fine and I have Update 5.3.2 installed. I have the current Twenty Thirteen theme running.

    The issue is that the website has a very outdated plugin: Exclude or include Pages, Tags, Posts & Categories (integrate with WiziApp). It allows a check box to tick if you want to exclude a specific page from the Menu bar. As the plugin is outdated it has been recommended that I deactivate and delete it from the website for safety, security purposes.

    My issue is that I have no other plugin to replace it with and if I delete it, pages I do not want on the Menu will then appear. ie; forms. I have tested it on a staging website to confirm the case.

    I looked online and found a link on how to edit sidebar code to exclude ID pages from the theme editor however I do not see the code there. Sample: <?php wp_list_pages();?>
    The greengeeks link I was visiting which provided this info is: https://www.greengeeks.ca/tutorials/article/exclude-pages-from-wordpress-menus/

    So, I am contacting you to see if you can tell me where in the Theme Editor this wp_list_pages may be and if I should edit it to include the ID pages I do not want to show on our website Menu. Or, if you have another suggestion to solve this problem? I am not an expert with coding and have learnt as I went with the website over the past 5 years so my skills are limited.

    Thanks for you help.
    Jayna

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  • Hi, not sure what you’re current setup looks like but you can just go to Appearance->Menus in your admin dashboard. Create a new menu there with only the links that you want to show up in the navigation. Once you have that menu saved, click on the Manage Locations tab at the top of the page where you created the menu and assign your newly created menu to the Navigation Menu location.

    Click Save Changes and you should then have your customized menu containing only the links that you want as the main navigation for your site.

    Thread Starter jayna001

    (@jayna001)

    Thank you for the reply Jarret. I have found the area to work in which you mentioned. I am not quite sure how what you are suggesting will work so I will do some research on Menus and how to Create a New Menu in WP.

    You mention links but do you mean pages? It is a page (with a form in it) that I don’t want to show up on the Main Menu bar.

    Right now on the website the menu bar has Main Pages most that drop down to other pages which are linked to a Parent Page which is one of the Main Pages. And I have sub menus so 3 tiers I guess you could say. I don’t really want the page with form to be seen on a drop down or as a main page.

    I have a link to the page with the form on it, within one of the drop down pages and prefer that. But, once I remove the old plugin, it will either have to show up on the Main Menu or I will have to make it a drop down page item. Neither are my first choice, I’d like to have the page exist but only use it as a link, not a menu page.

    So not sure if your suggestion will create this solve for me?

    With the current default menu editor in WordPress, you can choose to have any page, post, custom post type or custom link to any other site that you want to show up in your menu:

    Appearance Menus Screen

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