Pages Widget: Exclude Pages and Sort by Menu Order
Hides pages such as Privacy Policy or Thank You from the Pages widget and sorts the rest by their menu order.
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Code
// Page IDs to hide from the Pages widget.
$wpide_pages_widget_exclude = array( 0 );
add_filter( 'widget_pages_args', function ( $args ) use ( $wpide_pages_widget_exclude ) {
$existing = isset( $args['exclude'] ) ? wp_parse_id_list( $args['exclude'] ) : array();
$args['exclude'] = implode( ',', array_merge( $existing, array_map( 'absint', $wpide_pages_widget_exclude ) ) );
$args['sort_column'] = 'menu_order, post_title';
return $args;
} );Notes
Use page IDs.
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