GoGetta

Hi Guys,

Howw do you hide a published page?

I have an order confirmation page on a site of mine and I want to hide it from navigation but be published so when an order is made, it will forward the buyer to this page!

How do you hide a published page?

GoGetta

pjCheviot

Hi GoGetta

Take a look at this explanation How To Hide A Wordpress Page | Silly Blogger

or I also use this plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-low-profiler/

Wasim

The way I managed to do it was to visit one of my already visible published pages on my wp blog > right click > view source

I then select ALL the code > right click > copy and then paste it into a new document in Dreamweaver. Save it as 'what-ever name'.

Dreamweaver allows me to view the code AND see what the page will look like.
I can then see the page design. I then select and delete the parts I don't want and publish the page through Dreamweavers own built in ftp.

I did it with a few pages and they look ok.
Take a look at this one: http://wasims.com/shop-books.html where I did not want the side bars showing but wanted the whole width to be used by the content.

The cool thing about this is that this page cannot be navigated to through by blog, only if I specifically give the link to someone. It's really cool for promoting pages or products and having 'thank you' pages for each different product. (I haven't done it for that yet but I would imagine that to be a very good use for it.)

GoGetta

That plugin did the trick, Thanks!

GoGetta

CMartin

If you are referring to the "WP low Profiler" plugin, you should be aware that it does not hide completely the page and search engines can still find it. From the plugin page:
So, there's a great possibility for that page to be indexed and shown in the search engines.

If you want to really hide it, I find the Wasim's solution (above) a better approach - sure it's some more work, but the page is more protected. An addition to Wasim's solution I would add to the source of that page a "NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" meta tag in the "head" section just to make sure SEs don't index it:
Carlos

Wasim

CMartin, that's a handy bit of code there. I'll definately be using that in the future. Thanks for posting that.

webdesignservice

Glad to hear you solve your problem GoGetta.

WP low Profiler is really a great Plugin

This plugin allows you to control the visibility of a post in three different views the homepage, the Category page as well as the
feeds.

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pjCheviot

Carlos

The aim of the OP was to hide a page from navigation - and the plugin and blog instructions each do that.

Remember ANY page can be found and indexed - so your "no index, no follow" would apply to any page which needs to be hidden from search engines, not just ones hidden by the methods given (even Wasim's). Also some robots will ignore a meta tag.

Karen Blundell

I use the plugin pageMash to hide my pages. It works perfectly.

CMartin

But a very special page

From the OP: "I have an order confirmation page on a site of mine and I want to hide it from navigation but be published so when an order is made, it will forward the buyer to this page!"

Without knowing what is the page content, from my understanding this is a "Thank You" page where the OP might have links to download the product or a form to subscribe in order to get the product.

So, these kind of pages, "Thank You" pages, should be protected/hidden from search engines and the solution implemented by the OP (using the "WP low Profiler" plugin) does not give him this kind of protection, thus my post alerting him for this fact.

I don't agree! I have many pages that were never found and thus indexed by search engines, not even by the "bad" robots. It always depends on the way you protect those pages.

Correct.

Sure... by the "bad" robots. As the robots meta tag is a standard, it's expected that most of the search engine robots respects this tag and from my experience the major SEs respect it.

But remember that SEs' robots find pages by following links/URLs. So, if you don't have any links pointing to a specific page, then it cannot be found. Off course that if a *bad* customer publishes a link to a "Thank You" page, then that page can also be found by robots and get indexed... so, the use of the robots "noindex" meta tag can help.

The "bad" robots can find pages by using brute force attacks, but usually these "bad" robots (or malware robots) are not looking for "thank you" pages, but for specific pages that have bugs and allows them to do whatever they are looking for.

Carlos

takingaction

There are download protection scripts that require the visitor to come from a certain location (ie payment processor) in order to see the download page content. Therefore, even if a download page was indexed in the search engines, it would not reveal any content if it was visited directly.

Would such a script work in WordPress?

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Leanne King

Glad you found the solution to hide your page but you also need to no index it - quick way - install platinum seo and check the box to no index no follow on that page.

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