{"id":2020,"date":"2009-12-10T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bitvolution.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2009-12-10T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T08:00:38","slug":"how-to-have-a-hidden-wordpress-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/how-to-have-a-hidden-wordpress-page\/","title":{"rendered":"How to have a hidden wordpress page"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WordpressA typical use case for a hidden page might be so you can store your website licensing agreement or image attribution links without having it explicitly in the main navigation links – most folk link to their licensing agreement in the footer.<\/p>\n

If you want to have a page on your self-hosted WordPress website that is accessible via a URL but not directly linked or advertised on the site, you have several options:<\/p>\n

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  1. Use a plugin such as “Exclude Pages<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
  2. If your pages are displayed via a sidebar widget, you can go to the widget settings page in the WordPress admin section and use the “exclude” field to hide a page ID.<\/li>\n
  3. Save the page as a “draft” but never publish it. Even though it’s not live, you can still access the page if you type the direct URL to the page. e.g. http:\/\/yourblogurl\/?page_id=69.<\/li>\n
  4. Modify the wp_list_pages<\/em> function in your current theme:\n
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    • If you know you don’t use any sub-pages on your site, you can hide any page you want by making it a sub-page of the homepage and then display your menu using: <?php wp_list_pages('depth=1'); ?><\/code><\/li>\n
    • To exclude a page with id 69, use: <?php wp_list_pages('exclude=69' ); ?><\/code> If you do this you can automatically hide additional pages by making them a sub-page of the hidden page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • Create a new file in the theme directory. It will be accessible via http:\/\/yourblogurl\/wp-content\/themes\/yourthemename\/yoursecretpage.php. If you want to use regular wordpress functions in the secret page, include the following on line 1: <?php require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '\/..\/..\/..\/wp-blog-header.php'); ?><\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Note: <\/strong>WordPress does have a “Private” checkbox that you can tick in the visibility<\/em> section of the publish<\/em> options. However, private pages will not be accessible via any URL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      A typical use case for a hidden page might be so you can store your website licensing agreement or image attribution links without having it explicitly in the main navigation links – most folk link to their licensing agreement in the footer. If you want to have a page on your self-hosted WordPress website that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}