Removing Menu Items

I’m not sure if this is the right section. I think and hope that it is 😀 sorry if it isn’t though.

Anyway, I have a few pages within my blog that I do not want displayed in the top header bar of the site. Now I’ve looked at a few solutions to this problem but I don’t really know what I’m doing so I’d just like to ask for a few ideas from you.

This is my navigation part within my header.php file in my theme.

<!– navigation …………………………… –>
<div id=”navigation”>

<li<?php if (is_home()) echo ” class=\”selected\””; ?>>“>Home

<?php
$pages = get_pages();
if ($pages) {
foreach ($pages as $page) {
$page_id = $page->ID;
$page_title = $page->post_title;
$page_name = $page->post_name;
if ($page_name == “archives”) {
(is_page($page_id) || is_archive() || is_search() || is_single())?$selected = ‘ class=”selected”‘:$selected=”;
echo “<li”.$selected.”>Archives\n”;
}
elseif($page_name == “home”) {“”;
}
elseif($page_name == “about”) {
(is_page($page_id))?$selected = ‘ class=”selected”‘:$selected=”;
echo “<li”.$selected.”>About\n”;
}
elseif ($page_name == “about_short”) {/*ignore*/}
else {
(is_page($page_id))?$selected = ‘ class=”selected”‘:$selected=”;
echo “<li”.$selected.”>$page_title\n”;
}
}
}
?>

</div>
<!– /navigation –>

Any help would be much appreciated