Webmasters often need to remove top menu page navigation to allow them not show a page to their website visitors. It just gives you a choice on which pages or category titles show in the top navigation menu.

What is Artisteer?

Web Design Generator – Artisteer is a program that helps you create website themes and templates without having to know too much php or html. Here is a previous tutorial I posted about using Artisteer. You can watch a video on how to make a website template.

I like to design WordPress Themes with Artisteer and sometimes customizing the theme is a little bit different to other themes I have worked with. In this tutorial I am going to show you how to remove top menu page navigation links and leave only the ones you want. If you have a WordPress theme built using something other than Artisteer then please see this article Remove a page link from the top menu navigation in WordPress.

How to Remove top menu page navigation in an Artisteer WordPress theme?

Most of the time, when removing a page link from the navigation bar you have to edit the header.php file. However with an Artisteer WordPress Theme you need to edit the functions.php file. That is the only major difference. You will find the same or similar code to edit in there. Changing the header.php file in an Artisteer theme will not effect the top nav menu.

1.  Click on the Appearance menu. Then choose Editor.

2.  On the far right there will be a menu of pages with .php on the end. Find the Theme functions page (functions.php) and click on it.

3.  In the Functions.php file look for anything that says list_pages under the heading of /* horizontal menu */

4.  See the screen shot below. Click on it to enlarge.

5.  Where I have circled the code it had this there: wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&sort_column=menu_order’);

6.  I replaced it with: wp_list_pages(‘exclude=3962,4061,4125,3899&title_li=&sort_column=menu_order’);

The numbers that I added in (3962,4061,4125,3899) are page numbers that I want to exclude from the menu. Now this is how I remove top menu page navigation links in Artisteer.

Please note that Artisteer is updated often and this tutorial can become out of date. If you cannot find similar code to this then you might have an upgraded version.

Watch this video tutorial on how to Remove top menu page navigation links

Notes on How to Remove top menu page navigation links in Artisteer?