How To Find Your WordPress Page And Post IDs

Ever wondered how to exclude general viewing of specific pages and posts in areas of your website like your sitemap?

Often, the easiest way to do this is to filter your pages or posts by their unique ID.

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

Knowing how to locate the post or page ID can be really useful if for example, you want to exclude pages from displaying in your WordPress sitemap, or if you want only selected pages to display in the Pages Widget.

In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to locate the unique ID of WordPress pages and posts.

How To Locate The Post Or Page ID In Your WP Blog: 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 area (for IDs of pages) or the Posts area (to see a specific post ID) …

(WP Dashboard – All Pages)

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

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

The “post ID” value is displayed in the status bar of your browser window. In the screenshot below, the ID is 5575 …

(Page ID displayed in your browser)

Record the ID of the post or page.

Practical Applications For Post ID/Page ID

Here are a few practical applications for post and page IDs:

Prevent Posts And Pages From Showing In A Site Map

In the example below, we want to exclude a page whose unique ID is “26” from displaying to visitors on a site map.

Many site map plugins include fields that let you specify the IDs of items you want to exclude (e.g. categories, pages, etc.) …

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

Exclude Posts And Pages From Appearing In Your WordPress Sidebar

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

Just enter all of the Page IDs for the pages you want to exclude separated by commas into the Exclude field of the Pages widget, then click the Save button …

(Preventing pages or posts from showing in the WordPress sidebar)

Prevent Posts Or Pages From Appearing In A Sitemap

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

(Prevent posts or pages from displaying in an XML sitemap|sidebar)

WordPress Plugins – Page IDs

If you want to regularly access the IDs of all your pages or posts, then here are a few FREE plugins that you may find useful:

Reveal IDs

(Reveal IDs WP Plugin)

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

(ID Column)

To access the plugin settings go to Settings > Reveal IDs …

(Settings Menu – Reveal IDs)

Learn more about the plugin here: 

• Reveal IDs – WP Plugin

99 Robots Show IDs

(99 Robots Show IDs)

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

For more information about this plugin, go here:

• WordPress Plugin – 99 Robots Show IDs

ID ARRAYS

(ID Arrays)

This plugin 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 Post/Page 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 download this plugin, go here:

• ID Arrays

Congratulations! Now you know how to easily locate the WP page or post ID.

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