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1. steve49589
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I may have made a mistake by uninstalling the plug in while it was still active?

   I'm getting duplicate Custom Field entries - MANY of them - on pages. The custom field added is exclude_pages and the value is 0. Every time I save a page, I get a new custom field entry called exclude_pages.

   At some point I must have removed the plug in since I was not using it, but the above started happening at some point.

   I added the plug in back to the system in hopes it would clear up the issue. Still the same issue.

   Can someone help?

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Wonder if you have duplicates in wp_postmeta? If so backup your database and consider using this in phpMyAdmin
   DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = 'exclude_pages' AND meta_value = '0';

3. steve49589
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank you for the reply, but that did not solve the issue.

   Every time I save a page, I get a new custom field added with the name exclude_page and a Value of 0.

   Stumped.

   Anyone else?

4. steve49589
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Bump. This is really bugging me. And deleting all of these references as I build out the site is getting a bit annoying.

5. mackaaij
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I came here for the same problem and since there is no movement on this topic I figured two options:
   1. Don't use a plugin and build your own "page" menu as a widget and manually add the pages you do wish to show.
   2. Try this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/

6. mackaaij
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I decided in favor of my first option. After removing the plugin I deleted all the custom fields entries from the database (to clean up) using this SQL statement:

   delete FROM <dbname>_postmeta WHERE meta_key = 'exclude_page'

   (please note the meta_key is indeed 'exclude_page' and not 'exclude_pages' as mentioned above)

7. steve49589
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   There is a plug in conflict. I thought I had updated this thread, but I did not. Hang on, let me check my e-mail.

8. steve49589
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The conflict is between a plug in called Hide Pages (http://www.instinct.co.nz/hide-pages-plugin/) and a plug in called Exclude Pages (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/).

   They both use the same exclude_page reference in the code. Ensure you are only using one of them.

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