How to Hide a Post From Your Home Page in WordPress

Most WordPress themes will show the latest posts on your home page by default, but there are a number of reasons you might want to hide certain posts. 

Maybe you just wrote an article about a controversial topic and would prefer it not be the first thing visitors see. Maybe you’d rather showcase your most popular content rather than your most recent content. Or maybe you want to hide posts from guest bloggers to feature your own. 

Whatever the reason, you can hide a post on the homepage of your WordPress site in a few easy steps. Let’s look at how you can do so manually or with a plugin. 

How to Hide a WordPress Post From Your Homepage Manually

You can add custom code to your theme’s functions.php file to hide a post from your homepage.

First, you’ll need the ID of the posts or pages you want to exclude from the homepage. To find it, click Posts > All Posts and then hover your mouse over the title of the desired post. The post edit URL will appear at the bottom left-hand corner of your screen. The number that comes between “post=” and “&action” is its ID.

Once you have the ID, copy and paste the following code at the end of your theme’s functions.php file right before “?>”. Don’t forget to replace the IDs inside the array (1737 and 1718 in the snippet below) with the IDs of the posts that you want to exclude.

 


   function wpb_exclude_from_home($query) {
      if ($query->is_home() ) {
          $query->set('post__not_in', array(1737,
1718));
      }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'wpb_exclude_from_home');