Hi, I'd like to know how to create hidden pages - pages that don't appear in the navigation or sitemap of my wordpress blog. Thanks. Michelle
No, I want to create a page where I can upload a free report or e-book that people have to optin in order to download the report. I don't want the page to appear on the site navigation for obvious reasons.
You can password protect the page when creating or editing it. Top right under Publish, Visibility, click edit. "Hiding" the page depends on a few variables. If you have pages in the navigation bar on the theme's header you need to change the code in the themes header file to not show or exclude that page's ID number. More here: Custom Header Navigation You will need to exclude the page's ID number if you are showing the pages sidebar widget. To find the pages ID number go to Pages, Edit, open to edit the page and look in the browser address bar. The number on the end is it's ID number. Like this --> action=edit&post=93 The sitemap plugin you are using should have a similar exclude page/post option and then there are other methods I don't know much about but you may want to Google using the robots.txt file and possibly the .htaccess file too.
create a blank folder on your host account. Then upload anything you want to that folder. If you use a robot noindex attribute it shouldn't be crawled... shouldn't... but it still might. Password Protection is the way to go.