If you are into WordPress websites you will most likely come across the problem of a page that you do not want showing appearing in the top navigation menu. Sometimes you can install a plugin to help customize the top navigation menu, however these plugins react differently for each WordPress theme. This is why I like to remove or exclude the pages I do not want in the top navigation menu manually. I do this by editing the php code in the header.php.

How to remove or exclude a page from the navigation menu in WordPress?

1.  Sign in to your WordPress dashboard
2. Click on the appearance link in the side menu
3. Then choose editor
4. Some themes are different, however in this case I want to edit the header.php file
5. Click on header.php to edit
6. Find <?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’); ?> or something similar
7. Paste the new code in: <?php wp_list_pages(‘exclude=32&title_li=’); ?>
8. If you have menus with submenus than use this code: <?php wp_list_pages(‘depth=2,3,5&exclude= 2&title_li=’); ?>

Watch this video tutorial showing you how to add the code into the header.php file.

Here is another example of how I had to customize this code to get it to work.

$string = wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&echo=0&depth=1&exclude=3962,4779′);

As you can see it is very similar to the previous examples.

To add a page to your website that has a sitemap listed on it, you simply have to install a wordpress plugin. I am using a plugin called clean archives reloaded. See the screenshot below of what it looks like. This sitemap plugin lists all your posts on one page. Of course there are others available but I use this one because I have not had a problem with it yet.

Watch this video to see how to find the plugin and install it..It will also show you how to make the page with the sitemap on it.

Here is the code to put on the page where you want the sitemap listing to show up.

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