How To Find Your WordPress Page And Post IDs

Do you need to know how to exclude general access to specific pages or posts in areas of your site like your sitemap?

One of the easiest ways to do this is to filter your pages or posts by their unique ID.

Your WordPress Post Or Page ID is a unique number that WordPress assigns to every post or page that you create on your site.

Knowing how to locate the post or page ID is quite useful if for example, you want to prevent pages from displaying in your WordPress sitemap, or if you want only selected pages to show in the Pages Widget.

In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to locate the unique ID of any WordPress post or page.

How To Locate The ID Of Posts And Pages In Your WP Site: Step-By-Step Tutorial

To locate your page or post ID, log into your site’s dashboard and, depending on which ID you are trying to locate, either go to the Pages screen (to find a particular page ID) or the Posts screen (if you want post IDs) …

(WP Dashboard – All Pages)

Select the page or post that you want to know the ID of and hover your mouse over its title …

(Hovering over the post title displays Page or Post ID)

The unique “ID” value is displayed in the status bar of your web browser. In the image below, the ID is 5575 …

(Page ID displayed in your web browser)

Record the ID of the post or page.

Practical Uses For Post ID/Page ID

Here are a few practical ways to use WordPress post or page IDs:

Preventing Pages And Posts From Showing In A Site Map

In the example below, let’s say that you need to prevent a page whose unique ID is “26” from displaying to visitors on a site map.

Site map plugins typically contain fields that let you specify the IDs of excluded items (e.g. categories, pages, etc.) …

(Exclude pages or posts from showing in a site map)

Excluding Pages And Posts From Appearing In Your WordPress Sidebar

Another useful application for page IDs is to exclude them from appearing in your WordPress sidebar.

To do this, just enter all of the Page IDs for the pages you want to exclude separated by commas into the Exclude field of the WordPress Pages widget, and click the Save button …

(Prevent posts or pages from showing in your sidebar)

Excluding Posts And Pages From Showing In Your XML Sitemap

You can also use page and post IDs to exclude pages or posts from your XML sitemap …

(Exclude pages and posts from showing in the XML sitemap|sidebar)

Plugins – Page/Post IDs

If you want to regularly access your post or page IDs, then here are a few FREE WordPress plugins that you may find useful:

Reveal IDs

(Reveal IDs WP Plugin)

This free WordPress plugin displays IDs for pages, posts, links, categories, media, users, link categories, comments, custom taxonomies, custom post types and tags. It also adds a sortable column header to your Posts and Pages tables …

(Posts Screen – ID Column)

You can access the plugin settings area by going to Settings > Reveal IDs …

(Settings – Reveal IDs)

Learn more about this plugin here: 

• WP Plugin – Reveal IDs

99 Robots Show IDs

(99 Robots Show IDs WP Plugin)

99 Robots Show IDs is another plugin that lets users view their posts, pages, media, links, categories, tags and users in the Posts and Pages admin tables. It’s also a very lightweight plugin that supports custom post types  and taxonomies.

For more information about this plugin, go here:

• WP Plugin – 99 Robots Show IDs

ID ARRAYS

(ID Arrays Plugin)

ID Arrays not only adds a column of IDs to your Table of Pages/Posts, it also provides a function that lets you copy a list of selected Page/Post IDs to your clipboard.

(ID Arrays allows you to select and copy a list of Page/Post IDs to your clipboard)

This can be very useful if, for example, you are working with a long list of posts with many IDs required and finding IDs one by one would be time-consuming.

To learn more about this plugin, go here:

• ID Arrays WordPress Plugin

Congratulations, now you know how to easily locate the unique ID of WordPress pages and posts.

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