Exclude page(s) from navigation menu

This is for a child theme created from the default WordPress theme TwentyEleven.

This is mean that you can exclude a page, group of pages or tree of pages without editing the main functions.php file while using a child theme.

In your child theme folder create functions.php file and place in it

<?php
function fcs_page_menu_args( $args ) {
	$args = array(
	'depth'        => 0,
	'show_date'    => '',
	'date_format'  => get_option('date_format'),
	'child_of'     => 0,
	'exclude'      => '',
	'exclude_tree' => '',
	'include'      => '',
	'title_li'     => __('Pages'),
	'echo'         => 1,
	'authors'      => '',
	'sort_column'  => 'menu_order, post_title',
	'link_before'  => '',
	'link_after'   => '',
	'walker' => '',
	'show_home' => true);
	return $args;
}

add_filter( 'wp_page_menu_args', 'fcs_page_menu_args', 'twentyeleven_page_menu_args' );
?>

Note: the fcs is just what i called my menu, you can call it what you want.

I’ve used the basic default set up that wordpress gives you for the options. To exclude a specific page just put in the page id between the single quotes next to ‘exclude’ – for example

'exclude' => '73',

This will remove the page with the id of 73.

To remove a page along with its child pages, put the parent id in the ‘exclude_tree’ section – i.e

'exclude_tree' => '73',

Then in the add_filter part at the bottom, add in your own menu;

Original:
add_filter( 'wp_page_menu_args', 'twentyeleven_page_menu_args' );

New
add_filter( 'wp_page_menu_args', '<strong>fcs</strong>_page_menu_args', 'twentyeleven_page_menu_args' );

This means that the changes you have made will stay with your child theme and not get overwritten when you update the twentyEleven theme.

Hope this helps, sorry if its been done before! If you know an easier way post and let me know, I’m no expert I was just trying things to see if it worked and it did!! Thought i’d share to make it easier to find – Cheers!

tested on my localhost