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Jaco Burger
Jaco Burger
20,807 Points

Exclude a page on One-Page WP Site

Hi Guys.

I'm currently building a one page site, where all the pages must appear, EXCEPT for the blog page. What should I do to display all the pages, except for that?

Thanks

4 Answers

I'm assuming you are trying to create something similar to Zac's One Page Site tutorial. If so, there is just one additional parameter you need to add into the WP Query args array (post__not_in) where you are looping to get the pages for your one page layout.

<?php

$blog = get_page_by_title( 'Blog' );  //replace Blog with the title of your blog

$args = array (
   'post_type' => 'page',
  'post__not_in' => array( $blog ), 
   'order' => 'ASC
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

?>

The (post_not_in) expects an array of page ids. If you already know your blog page id, you don't need to do the get_page_by title function, just add that to the array: e.g., 'post_not_in' => array ( 8 ). // assuming a page id of 8.

Having trouble with the formatting here. The double underscore between post and not is being automatically removed and bolded.

Jaco Burger
Jaco Burger
20,807 Points

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Clinton Hopgood
Clinton Hopgood
7,825 Points

Can you not just disable / unpublish the blog page?

Jaco Burger
Jaco Burger
20,807 Points

I can, but I still want the blog page, just need it to display on a separate page.

Caroline Hagan
Caroline Hagan
12,612 Points

Depends where it is appearing; is it coming up in a menu... ? Is this a template or something you're building from scratch? Need a bit more info!