Exclude Pages plugin

Sometimes you might need to exclude a page from your menu. Ordinarily you’d do this by setting the status of the page to “Draft”, at least while it’s still being edited.

But what if it’s a page that doesn’t really fit within the browse sequence, an error page for example.

Most themes come with a 404 error page by default. For the uninitiated, a 404 error is where a page you were looking for no-longer exists. If it doesn’t exist, the browser needs to be told about it — with an appropriate error page (and if it’s clever, a 10 second delay before it redirects the visitor to the home page) — or it just displays a rather basic plain text page that says it couldn’t find the page.

But if you need a landing page for specific reasons — say you’re running a membership-only site which does a redirect to a specific landing page in the case where a visitor is trying to view something hidden away — then you need the Exclude Pages plugin.

All Exclude-Pages does is add a checkbox in the page editor which, is ticked by default. A tick means the page can be viewed in the menu. Untick the box and it’s hidden. Simple and easy!

You can install the Exclude-Pages plugin by clicking Plugins and Add New. Then search on Exclude-Pages and then click Install.

The technically enabled can download the plugin from the wordpress Exclude-Pages page.

Thanks to Simon Wheatley for this lovely lightweight plugin!