wp_nav_menu exclude pages from menu - php

Question

I am trying to exclude pages from wp_nav_menu
Here is the function to exclude pages from menu
Works well when
<?php $page = get_page_by_title('my title' );
wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'menu-2', 'exclude' => $page->ID ) ); ?>
Works properly
BUt when using
<?php $page = get_page_by_title('my title' );
$pag1 = get_page_by_title('my title 1' );
$pag2 = get_page_by_title('my title2' );
wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'menu-2', 'exclude' => $page->ID,$pag1->ID,$pag2->ID ) ); ?>
Doesn't work properly.

Answer 1

try this
wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'menu-2', 'exclude' => '".$page->ID.",".$pag1->ID.",".$pag2->ID."' ) );
checkout this tutorial

Answer 2

Here is the correct solution
I hope it helps some other people
<?php
$page = get_page_by_title('my title' );
$pag1 = get_page_by_title('my title 1' );
$pag2 = get_page_by_title('my title2' );
$ids = "{$page->ID},{$pag1->ID},{$pag2->ID}";
wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'menu-2', 'exclude' => $ids ) );
?>

Answer 3

Managed it using the exclude method, but exclude by page id:
wp_nav_menu(
array(
'theme_location' => 'menu-2',
'exclude' => '599, 601'
)
);
(599 & 601 are page id's)
which is written here:
http://bacsoftwareconsulting.com/blog/index.php/wordpress-cat/wordpress-tip-how-to-exclude-pages-from-wp_nav_menu-function/
and finding the page id manually is written here:
http://bacsoftwareconsulting.com/blog/index.php/wordpress-cat/how-to-find-tag-page-post-link-category-id-in-wordpress/

Answer 4

It should work if you put the pages that you want to exclude into an array.
Check out this: http://ehsanis.me/2010/11/30/wordpress-wp_nav_menu-to-exclude-pages/

Answer 5

You can use a Custom Walker Function to just skip the rendering of the menu item.
wp_nav_menu( array(
'theme_location' => 'menu-2',
'walker' => new custom_navigation
) );
class custom_navigation extends Walker_Nav_Menu {
function start_el( &$output, $item, $depth = 0, $args = array(), $id = 0 ) {
parent::start_el($item_html, $item, $depth, $args);
$exclude = array();
$exclude[] = get_page_by_title( 'my title' );
$exclude[] = get_page_by_title( 'my title 1' );
$exclude[] = get_page_by_title( 'my title2' );
if ( ! in_array( $item->object_id, $exclude ) ) {
// add your menu item html to the $output variable
}
}
}