Since I know nothing about coding, it took me a while to figure out how to edit the “exclude” argument in wp_list_pages so that it wouldn’t screw up the rest of the page. For the benefit of other nubs like me, I thought it might be worth while to detail it here:
NOTE: All of this is mentioned in https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages#Exclude_Pages_from_List, but it’s not really spelled out for code-illiterate people like myself.
The wp_list_pages you want to edit is in the “header” php file in your theme editor. It might look something like this:
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>
<?php wp_list_pages('depth=-1&title_li=');?>
</ul>
The arguments you’ll be using are:
‘exclude=12’ – where 12 represents the ID# of whatever page you want to exclude, and
‘title_li=’ – which removes the heading text above your page links (commonly and infamously seen as “Pages”)
Putting them both together in the wp_list_pages tag will look like this:
<?php wp_list_pages('exclude=12&title_li=');?>
The two arguments are separated by an inclusive “&”.
This worked for me, and erasing the ‘depth=-1&title_li=’ thing that was originally included in wp_list_pages didn’t seem to affect anything. I hope this helps, and I hope I didn’t make some lame mistake. lol.
