How To Find Your WordPress Page And Post IDs

Do you need to know how to exclude certain pages and posts from displaying 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 assigned by WordPress to every post or page created on your site.

Knowing how to locate a page or post ID is really useful if for example, you want to prevent pages from showing in your sitemap, or if you want only certain pages to show in your WordPress sidebar.

In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to locate WordPress post and page IDs.

How To Find The Post Or Page ID In A WP Website: Step-By-Step Tutorial

To locate the unique ID of any page or post, log into your site and either go to the Pages screen (to see IDs of pages) or the Posts section (if you want post IDs) …

(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 …

(Hover over the title to see Post ID)

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

(Page ID)

Record the ID of the post or page.

Uses For Page ID/Post ID

Here are some examples of using WordPress post or page IDs:

Prevent Posts Or Pages From Displaying In Your Site Map

In the example below, let’s say that you would like to prevent a page whose 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.) …

(Prevent pages and posts from displaying in your site map)

Excluding Pages Or Posts From Showing In The Sidebar

Another practical use for page IDs is to exclude them from displaying in your WordPress sidebar.

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 …

(Excluding posts or pages from appearing in your WordPress sidebar)

Prevent Pages And Posts From Showing In A Sitemap

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

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

WP Plugins – Page/Post IDs

If you want to know the IDs of your posts or pages on a regular basis, then here are some WordPress plugins you may find useful:

Reveal IDs

(Reveal IDs – WordPress Plugin)

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

(Posts Screen – ID Column)

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

(Settings Menu – Reveal IDs)

To learn more about this plugin, go here: 

• Reveal IDs – WP Plugin

99 Robots Show IDs

(99 Robots Show IDs – WordPress Plugin)

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

Download the plugin here:

• 99 Robots Show IDs

ID ARRAYS

(ID Arrays – WordPress Plugin)

ID Arrays not only displays a column of IDs in 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 Post/Page 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 the process of finding IDs one by one would be time-consuming.

To download this plugin, go here:

• ID Arrays – WordPress Plugin

Congratulations! Now you know how to find page and post IDs in WordPress.

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