The pages widget

What I am going to show you first is how to create a footer menu in addition to your main menu, this is a good idea because it can free up your main menu for your content and you can create a footer menu for your legal pages

As you can see here I have a pages widget in the primary side bar and in the footer, this means that I can remove the legal pages from my main menu and display them in my footer menu, and thus freeing up more room in my main menu and keeping the site well organised and simple to navigate for my readers and also for the web crawlers

MAIN MENU

FOOTER MENU

As you can see above, I have a main menu which is the main menu of the site and is created in menus, but I also have another menu in the footer which is a widget that I put into the footer to display all my legal pages, so I can remove them form my main menu.

So to achieve this I have two pages widgets, one page widget in the primary side bar and one widget in the footer, so I will do this in steps for you

Step 1 = Add a page widget to your primary side bar and it will display all your pages that have been published like this

OK now you can see all the pages on my site but what I have done is exclude all the legal pages and now I will show you how to exclude pages from the pages widget

If you look at the picture above you will see I have excluded certain pages by using the page numbers, so how do you get the page numbers then I hear you ask

Ok that's easy, just go to your dashboard and click on all pages and then open one of your pages and look at the URL bar at the top of the page and you will see the page number for each page

Here you can see the number of my privacy policy page is 25, once you have a list of page numbers you can put them into the (EXCLUDE BOX) and they will not show up in the side bar widget

Next step is to insert another page widget into the footer section and call it legal pages or anything you want to and then exclude all the other page numbers other than the legal pages you want to display in the footer menu

So you can see here that in the footer area widget I have excluded all the other pages except the legal pages and thus i have created a footer menu for my legal pages leaving the top menu clear and only for the content I want to display