Can't Exclude Page with no ID# in Pages Widget

PS. I wish I could edit the post. I took the title off my page, and it still worked.

I did change the permalink setting under settings to custom structure. In the box beside the words custom structure I entered /%postname%/

This gives me a nice URL that would look like http://www.url.com/happy-faces.com. Instead of having all the numbers in the URL.

Then I went to edit my test page. Under where you enter the title is a link where you can edit your permalink. I could edit happy-faces to happyfaces if I wanted to.

That is where you are going to find your URL to that page, and you can edit it there also. Use the end of the URL in the widget box without any slashes. That should work.

I recently spent a bunch of time watching youtube videos to find all this out and more. Good luck.

I just got back online. Yes, there is a plug in called “widget context”. What the plug in does is add an extra small box under each individual widget you added to the sidebar. From here you can show/hide using either by clicking on one of the eleven boxes such as front page, blog index, single post, single page, all archives, category archives, and etc. Next to it is a box where I can add individual pages. All I need to put in is the end part of the URL.

From what you said your page is the home page. In my widget context it has a special box for front page, which would also be the home page. Most plug ins I have seen for including/excluding widgets have a box for the front page. I don’t know how to exclude a widget without a plug in. I’m not sure if you can exclude the home page through page ID. I think that is why they have the box for that, and for blog index as well.

If that is not the case: Just because a page does not have a title does not mean it doesn’t have an ID. I did create a page without a title, and it did give me an ID using numbers.

I’m thinking your page ID for http://www/blog.com/blog/ should be blog. Don’t use any /’s. I would enter blog in my widget context plug in the box that says “or target by URL”.

Hope I didn’t loose you there.

If you want to know how to change the permalink which is basically dictates how your URL will look. Keep reading. I’m going to try to explain this step by step. If you still get lost, there are many good you tube videos on this.

To change the permalink settings.

After you log into wordpress admin, go to the dash board. Mine is located on the right hand side. Click on settings in your dashboard. Under settings there will be a link for permalinks. Click that link.

On that page it will give you several options on how you want your url to show. The default is http://www.url.com/?p=123. Instead of that, I like the option “custom structure”. Beside custom structure it has a box where you need to enter a code. The code to enter is /%postname%/
That will give you http://www.url.com/blog/

How to further edit your custom structure permalink/url.

Now say you don’t like http://www.blog.com/blog/ In your dashboard, click on pages. There you should see the page for http://www.blog.com/blog/. It will probablly show up as (no title) since you didn’t put a title in, which is fine. Go to that page and click edit to get to the page editor.

At the top it should say edit page.
Below that should be a box to enter your title, or change it.
Right below that, it should say permalink: http://blog.com/blog/
Right next to that should be an edit button and then the view page button.

Click the edit button next to the view page button, and you can change the last part of the URL /blog/. Instead of /blog/ say you could enter /petblogs/.

Please note: If you don’t see the permalink and edit button on your edit page, then you may need to change your permalink settings as I described above to custom structure. WP may only allow you to change the link in this way when using custom structure.

I hope that makes more sense.

Ok, your wanting to exclude the homepage on the page widget. Sorry, I thought you were trying to exclude a particular widget on your homepage.

Just found out from another source “If your front page isn’t a static WordPress Page, then you can’t control it via a Pages Widget.”

But

I found a plug in that might help called “Flexi Pages Widget”.
“Flexi Pages Widget is a highly configurable widget to list pages and sub-pages in WordPress sidebar. User friendly widget control comes with plenty of options. ‘Flexi Pages’ widget can be used as an alternative to the default WordPress ‘Pages’ widget.”

This might be what you are looking for.
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Read up on the permalinks, I’m not sure how they will affect your SEO. You might have a problem changing them if someone else put a link on their page back to your site. That link back wouldn’t work any longer. Did find out you can not change the permalink for the home page.

Widget context plugin adds itself to the widget box. It makes it easier to tell it which pages or blogs that widget will show up on.

I googled wordpress put widget on page not sidebar.

In the thread http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-widgets-anywhere-and-not-in-sidebar?replies=20 someone mentioned they created a widget called “Widgets on Pages” so you can place a widget on a page instead of the sidebar.

Here is the URl to Widgets on Pages http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widgets-on-pages/

Otherwise from what I have been reading you would have to work with the coding in order to put the widget on the page instead of the sidebar. Widgets were originally only meant to be put in the sidebar.

Hope this helps some.

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This seems like a bug, no?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15285654/Screen%20shot%202011-11-29%20at%2012.05.23%20PM.png

That looks right. You don’t have an edit button beside the view button. Means you can’t edit there. My home page looks like that also with no edit button. It sounds like it is not accepting blog as the page ID either.

I wish I knew how to help you further. Sorry I can’t.

Since no one else seems to be stepping in to help you, I’ll try again. Sorry I have been confusing to you. The page Id is not a bug, and you are limited in the page widget.

“Flexi Pages Widget” plug in replaces the page widget. You will be able to include one page to your widget if you want to without having to exclude 50 others. It has an option on whether you want to include the home page or not. This widget has a lot of different options for excluding and including pages. http://srinig.com/wordpress/plugins/flexi-pages/ gives you a screenshot of the widget itself, and more details on the widget.

You said “I think I don’t want to do a full sidebar.” I took that to mean you didn’t want any sidebars. Maybe you only meant you didn’t want it extending too far down. If that is the case, then the widget above will allow you to have a short sidebar.

If you want any side bars, then you will need the plug in below.

Widgets on Pages http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widgets-on-pages/
This lets you put a widget directly on your page instead of automatically placing it in the side bar. No side bars needed.

Other than this, I hope someone else will be able to step in.

All my Pages have Page ID’s with the exception of the ONE PAGE that happens to be on my Home Page

Is this a static Page? Or a list of your recent posts?

My recollection is that it is a static page

It#s not possible to verify this via the generated markup, so you need to check via Settings -> Reading.