exclude pages in custom menu

Question

I am creating a custom theme for wordpress, which will have a settings page. i am adding the option to exclude pages from the navigation, which will simply work on the page id separated by a ","

here is the code i have so far:

    <ul class="tabs">
<?php
    $exmenuitems = get_option('exmenuitems');
    $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
    $recentPosts->query (array (
    'post__not_in' => array($exmenuitems),
    'post_type' => 'page',
    'showposts' => $menuitems
));
 while ($recentPosts->have_posts()) : $recentPosts->the_post(); ?>
<?php $slug = basename(get_permalink());?>   
<li><a href="#<?php echo $slug; ?>"><?php the_title();?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>

this works fine excluding just 1 page id. but when i try and exclude more than 1 id it doesn't work, only the first id in the text input will get excluded and the other remain visible.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dan

Answer 1

You probably want to explode your list of page ID's using the explode function.

Something like;

<?php
    $exmenuitems = explode(",",get_option('exmenuitems'));
    $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
    $recentPosts->query (array (
    'post__not_in' => $exmenuitems,
    'post_type' => 'page',
    'showposts' => $menuitems
));

I'd recommend using the WordPress Menu building functions and admin interface. Its much more intuitive for end users to build their navigation menus via drag n drop that using page ID's.