Daniel Watrous

Well, I ended up creating a widget as an alternative to the default “Pages” widget which has the functionality. That’s not as elegant a solution I was hoping for, but I can’t see any way around the get_pages function since I can’t query based on an inequality of one meta_key/value.

Here are the pages that helped me create the widget:
https://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/26/the-complete-guide-to-creating-widgets-in-wordpress-28
and
https://www.lonewolfdesigns.co.uk/create-wordpress-widgets/

Best of luck to others with a similar problem.

Hello again,

This plugin overrides the get_pages() function:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/get-pages-with-status/

I could do that, but it would require a change to post-template.php, which currently calls get_pages(). Is there some way to modify the query in get_pages as a plugin that won’t require modification to standard wordpress code?