How do I hide the Google verfication page from my nav?

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  soothsayer767 · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 6:33 am

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  I have followed all the instructions but I cant get the search engine verfication pages to disappear from my top nav. When I use Appearance > Widgets > Pages > exclude it just adds the pages to the widget nav doesnt make them disappear. Why would it do that?

  I tried making them private or as a parent even created a static page but the verified URL changed. Anyway else to hide them?

  Do I just re-verify with the search engines under a new URL… (myname.wordpress.com/about/) or something? If I do do that will the search engine scan my whole site of just the about section?

  Please help!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  yarnaholic · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 6:51 am

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  We normally need a link to your WordPress.com blog to answer technical questions. Since I can’t see what theme you are using, this reply is rather general.

  If your verification page is a top level (parent) page, it will appear in your navbar.You can make it a child page of one of your other parent pages, then exclude it from the Pages widget if it gets displayed there. Resubmit to Google.

  http://support.wordpress.com/verifying-with-google-webmaster-tools/

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  soothsayer767 · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 6:53 am

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  sorry here is my webpage

  http://moviesoothsayer.wordpress.com/

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  yarnaholic · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 7:20 am

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  Ah, apparently the theme you are using, Regulus, displays child pages in the sidebar of its parent page as a default. :(

  There are 4 themes that do Fauna, Misty Look, Redoable Lite and Regulus. (info found on wpbtips)

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  husdal · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 7:25 am

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  Make the verification page a post, backdate it to be your very first post. Delete the page. Works the same.