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How to Fix the Exclude Tree Pages Bug in WordPress 2.7

Sometimes a new WordPress release messes up things that they fixed in a previous version. Here we go again with the irritating exclude pages bug in WordPress! The fix is something similar to post I blogged about in August…

My fix was inspired by this post from Texto.de. I also posted my exclude_tree fix on the WordPress forum.

Open up wp-includes/post-template.php in your favourite editor. Look for the line 616:

616

$r['hierarchical'] = 0;

Add 2 back slashes to the code to “comment hide” it.

616

//$r['hierarchical'] = 0;

That’s all there is to it! Stop using the exclude_tree parameter for the wp_list_pages function until a fix has been announced.

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Posted by Vincent on 16 January 2009 12:51 PM in Wordpress Help You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site. |

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6 Comments On “How to Fix the Exclude Tree Pages Bug in WordPress 2.7”

On 9th March 2009 3:19 PM, jNo Gravatar said:

This is a disable more than a fix, correct?

On 9th March 2009 3:34 PM, VincentNo Gravatar said:

It is a fix. The default 2.7 code does not allow exclude pages.

On 28th April 2009 1:28 PM, WillansNo Gravatar said:

Must agree with J. If it was a fix, it would make it work. All you’ve done is disable something.

On 28th April 2009 2:10 PM, VincentNo Gravatar said:

Do you have a better solution? I have no idea why WordPress messes up this exclude page feature.

On 28th April 2009 3:28 PM, jNo Gravatar said:

I went a different route with this and used a plugin called BigBigMenu (http://www.bigbigtech.com/wordpress-plugins/big-big-menu/) that a friend of mine wrote. It did the trick with only a small adjustment to include children categories + pages.

On 1st June 2009 5:10 AM, GeejayNo Gravatar said:

Why doesn’t it work with mine? It excludes only up to 3 pages. I need to exclude up to 8 pages.

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