Hide draft pages in the menu

Hey Stephan,

Thank you for the inquiry.

The wp_nav_menu, which is the function used to display the menu items, doesn’t have a parameter to exclude draft pages. This is the reason why the item still display in the menu even when the corresponding page have been reverted back to draft status. But it should be possible to hide those items using a filter. The filter below checks and hides the item based on the page or post status.

/**
* hide draft pages from the menu
*/
function avf_wp_nav_menu_objects_mod($items, $args) {
 foreach ($items as $i => $obj) {
     if (!is_user_logged_in () && 'draft' == get_post_status ($obj->object_id)) {
         unset ($items[$i]);
     }
 }
 return $items;
}
add_filter ('wp_nav_menu_objects', 'avf_wp_nav_menu_objects_mod', 10, 2);

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi Stephan,

Great, I’m glad that Ismael could help you out. Please open a new thread if you should have any further questions or problems.

Best regards,
Rikard