Creating invisible pages

  • Hi. Let’s suppose you want to have pages that exist on the site but do not show up in your main class=”page_item” navigation. In other words a separate level of navigation that are not children of any other pages.

    If you want to have an invisible page you could create a “post” that is back dated so far that it doesn’t show up as current, and then have static links to those pages.

    Or, is there a way to make a page invisible unless you link to it. For example you want a “Careers” page but don’t want it to show up in the main navigation. Any ideas on this?

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  • Yup, place the current page you are making under a parent page.

    IE, if you have a “Careers” page, place it under a parent page such as “Company”

    This pict is of an earlier verison of WP, but you get the idea.

    https://www.ingredients.com.au/nick/content/6_create_page.gif

    Thread Starter chabotjeff

    (@chabotjeff)

    Yeah. That’s definitely an easy way to go. But suppose the pages are NOT children of any parents at the top. They are basically a separate set of Parent pages. All those pages would show up in the “page_item” list.

    I thought of two ways to solve this.

    1. Like you said use a parent page. You could make all the pages you don’t want in the main nav live under let’s say “Home”. So “Home” shows up as a parent, but none of the children.

    2. Don’t use the “page_item” at all. Just take it out and manually add the pages to a navigation. Then you can have two separate navs.

    Here is a layout to illustrate. Any other ideas would be appreciated.

    MAIN NAV
    Home | News | Products | Contact

    SECONDARY GLOBAL NAV (not children – coexisting parent pages)
    About | Careers | History

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