Easy way to hide some pages from wp_list_pages output.
As of April 2026, Simply Hide Pages is a WordPress hide plugin with 90 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses….
Easy way to hide some pages from wp_list_pages output.
Simply add the custom field ‘hide’ with any value to your page, and this page will no longer appear on the page list.
You could already do this on the ‘Pages’ widget or by adding the exclude parameter to all your wp_list_pages template tags. But now you can do it directly form the page editor which is, I believe, the best place to do so.
You might want to hide pages if you need some pages to exist but don’t want them to appear on your page list. For instance as Cool URIs don’t change, but some services have been removed from your site, so you write a page explaining where to go to get the equivalent service now. (not a real redirect, but still useful sometimes). Of course you don’t want this p…
| WordPress | 2.9+ requiredTested up to 3.0.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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