\ud83c\udfa5 If you learn better by watching videos, I also recorded a video version of this tutorial. You can find it at the bottom of the post (or you can skip to it now<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Otherwise, if you’re still here, let’s get started.<\/p>\n\n\n You might be looking into hiding a WordPress page from your visitors or search engine bots for many reasons. For instance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n No matter the reason, if you want to hide a page from visitors or exclude pages from search results, there are, in fact, many ways in which you can do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t In the following paragraphs, we’ll cover effective methods you can use for hiding pages on your WordPress site, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s start with the easiest method for hiding WordPress posts or pages – changing their visibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The posts and pages on your WordPress website can support various visibility settings, including options to make them private or keep them accessible but protected by a password<\/a>. Let’s start with the first option, making your pages private.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, go to your page and click on Edit<\/strong>. If it has been published (if it’s not a draft), on the right-hand side, you’ll see an option that says Visibility<\/strong>. The default should be Public<\/strong>. If you change this to Private<\/strong>, only you will be able to see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can read more about WordPress private posts in this article<\/a>. One thing to keep in mind when using the Private<\/strong> visibility option is that any images you use within it will remain public. A visitor would still need a link to see them, but the pictures themselves will continue to live in your media folder – which is not private!<\/p>\n\n\n If you want to hide a page so your visitors don’t come across it, but you still want it to be online, one possibility is to simply remove it from the navigation menu<\/a>. Many websites do this with their blog posts, mainly when they are intended primarily for SEO purposes (for example, to drive people to the products or services on a site but not necessarily as cornerstone content<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n To do this, go to your menu (Appearance \u2192 Menus<\/strong>) and remove the entry for the page by clicking on the little down arrow on triangle<\/strong> (which will expand the item) and then on Delete<\/strong>. Don’t forget to press Save<\/strong> when you’re done, or the changes won’t be applied!<\/p>\n\n\n\n This method for how to hide a page in WordPress is similar to the first one I covered, with the only difference that, instead of choosing Private<\/strong> as your new page visibility, you would select the Password Protected<\/strong> option. Then, all you need to do is write your preferred password and click on Update<\/strong> to save the changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are several WordPress plugins that include an option to hide specific pages from most search engines or visitors. A popular one is Yoast SEO<\/a>, which allows you to set any post or page to \ud83d\udca1 Before I go into the step-by-step instructions on how to do this, let’s review what You can easily access and change this setting by using a WordPress plugin like Yoast SEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first thing to do is install the Yoast SEO plugin on your site. You can do this by going to Plugins<\/strong>, clicking on New<\/strong>, and then searching for it by name. Remember to also activate the plugin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you’ve installed the plugin, you’ll notice your pages now have a new box when you edit them. Scroll down to it and open the tab called Advanced<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are two important settings here, but the one you will want to check is the first:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Allow search engines to show this Page in search results.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are two options in the dropdown:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes<\/strong> (which is the default for all pages) and No<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To disallow search engines from indexing your page, simply choose No<\/strong>. Don’t forget to click on the Update<\/strong> button to save the changes.<\/p>\n\n\n \u26a0\ufe0f This method is not recommended by Google. Implement at your own risk.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Last but not least, if you want to hide a page in WordPress then you can give this method a shot. Although it’s not a difficult task, we’ve left it as the last method because there are always risks associated with editing your sites, particularly when it can affect SEO. So, only do this if you feel comfortable making changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, locate your robots.txt<\/a><\/em><\/strong> file. You can do this using your file manager or an FTP client<\/a>. The file should be in your site’s root directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Open the file and add the following lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The asterisk in the first line means that you will be targeting all search engine bots. The next line is your page’s address, so make sure to change it to the one you want to hide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, if you want to hide the page Once you’re done, don’t forget to Save<\/strong> your changes. If you were working locally, you should also upload your file back to the server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, one last important consideration:<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhy would you want to hide pages? \ud83e\udd14<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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How to hide a page in WordPress? \ud83d\ude48 What are the methods?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Method 1: Changing the visibility setting of a page in WordPress<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMethod 2: How to hide a page in WordPress from the navigation menu only<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\nMethod 4: How to hide a page from search engines using a plugin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
noindex<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nnoindex<\/code> means<\/a> and why it matters. Noindex<\/code> is an HTML<\/a> meta tag that tells engines not to include specific pages or posts in their search results. Many website owners use noindex<\/code> to hide pages with duplicated content, thin content, or not built for SEO performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Searching](\"https:\/\/mllj2j8xvfl0.i.optimole.com\/cb:c5QE.37290\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/how_to_hide_a_page_in_wordpress_1-1.png\")
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMethod 5: How to hide a page in WordPress using the robots.txt<\/em> file<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
User-agent: *\nDisallow: \/your-page\/<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nhttp:\/\/example.com\/2023\/03\/my-page\/<\/code>, you would write:<\/p>\n\n\n\nUser-agent: *\nDisallow: \/2023\/03\/my-page\/<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n