Title: Really Old Bug Not Fixed, Help!
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Really Old Bug Not Fixed, Help!

 *  [treb0r23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/treb0r23/)
 * (@treb0r23)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-old-bug-not-fixed-help/)
 * Hi All,
 * I’m building a custom theme and I really need to use the “exclude_tree” feature
   of the wp_list_pages function.
 * I’ve just discovered that there is a bug which means only the first supplied 
   tree id is excluded, and the rest ignored.
 * This bug is actually mentioned on the codex page here:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages)
 * “exclude_tree
    (string) Define a comma-separated list of parent Page IDs to be
   excluded. Use this parameter to exclude a parent and all of that parent’s child
   Pages. So ‘exclude_tree=5’ would exclude the parent Page 5, and its child (all
   descendant) Pages. (This parameter was added with Version 2.7, and it does not
   function as described as of version 2.8.1 – See bug report.)”
 * and the bug report (from four years ago) is here:
 * [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9153](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9153)
 * So it seems the same bug is still there in 3.5.1. There has been no activity 
   on the bug report for 13 months.
 * Does this mean that this bug is here to stay?
 * What can I do to help?
 * Thanks in advance…

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