Make Pages NOT Show in Sidebar?
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Is there a way to have pages that
emdon’t/emshow in the header or in the sidebar? Using the parent/child function all the separate pages are still visible in the sidebar and it’s getting unwieldy – and I’ve barely started. I’d like to just put links to the “invisible” pages on the actual visible pages, if that makes any sense. I do want all pages accessible to all viewers, I just want to clean up my sidebar. I already have the header pared down using the parent/child function. -
The best way would be to ignore the pages widget and instead use a text widget with the link to the pages you want to display. I don’t think there is any way to modify the pages widget itself.
This may help you a bit more:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/12/24/what-is-a-widget/
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/12/24/using-the-text-widget/ -
Actually, on my blog the pages widget is modifiable. You can exclude the pages you don’t want to show based on their page IDs. Not sure if the widget is theme-dependent.
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Thanks for the help! I’m not seeing how to modify the pages widget. I did upload the widget but I don’t see how to modify it and make some pages invisible from the sidebar. They’re not in the header — I used the parent/child function to limit pages in the header — and I only want some pages visible in the sidebar. But I want all pages accessible to all viewers by links within other pages. I know how to make the links; that’s the easy part. ;-)
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Oops! Now those excluded pages are no longer visible, even by following the links on other pages. They have ceased to exist for public view, though I would assume I can re-include them in the sidebar.
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yes you can include them back into the sidebar. you need to manually include the link to your child page in your parent page for it to be visible as such, since you have made it invisible at the original source in the page widget.
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To do this (link to child from parent) do I need to refer to it by ID # instead of the previously existing standard page reference? I’m wondering if that’s why the links on my parent pages are no longer finding the child pages.
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i’m not sure what you’re referring to, but what i meant is just a simple link, the usual kind. like putting a link to an external site, just using the exact url of the child page. your parent pages will not show the child pages on the page itself; the hiearchy can only be seen in the page widget or on selected themes.
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