Garrett Murphey

While working on the new theme for the site, I quickly realized that I didn’t want to show pages in any of the searches on the site. I only wanted posts.

It was easy enough to find articles that illustrated ways to exclude certain categories or posts by ID, so I decided to apply those methods to pages as well. Simply paste the following into your theme’s functions.php file.

I’ve been working on a little WordPress project these last few weeks with a colleague. When I first heard the idea, I thought, “That should be easy enough to build.” I decided the best way to tackle the feature would be a custom widget, but when I finally sat down to get it working I quickly began to realize that there were a few obstacles to overcome.

The project was really meant to extend an existing widget, and it seemed confusing to have both the default and extended version there side by side (plus it would be really nice to call them the same thing for transparency). I needed to get rid of it. You can’t just overwrite an existing widget by registering a new one by the same name – WordPress ignores it. And if I did manage to find a way to remove a default widget, when do you have to do it?

I received an email this evening from Dan, who uses the Page Link Manager, wondering how to get a home page link to show up in his site navigation. I had never really thought about the problem, or even realized it was a problem until I started my search for a solution. There’s not much out there covering the issue besides a few forum posts at WordPress.org. But it’s an issue, nevertheless. I understand that the blog’s heading is supposed to link to you home page, but I believe there’s a large audience of Internet users, and potential readers, that wouldn’t think to look to a heading for a shortcut back to your home page.