How To Find Your WordPress Post ID

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

Knowing your post or page ID is useful if, for example, you want to exclude pages from showing in your WordPress sitemap, or select only certain pages to display in the Pages Widget on the sidebar, etc.

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to easily locate your Page ID.

Watch the video below and then complete the step-by-step tutorial to learn how to locate your page ID …

How To Find Your Post Or Page ID: Step-By-Step Tutorial

To locate your page or post ID, log into your administration area and go to the Pages section of your site …

Locate the page or post whose ID you want to know and hover your mouse over its title …

The “Post ID” value is displayed in the status bar of your browser window. (In this example, the post ID is “1825”) …

Note down the ID of the post or page.

WordPress Post ID / Page ID – Examples Of Applications

Here are a couple of examples of using Post or Page IDs:

1) In the example below, we want to prevent a page whose page ID is “26” from displaying to visitors on a Site Map …

2) The next example shows a whole range of page Ids being added to the WordPress Pages Widget to prevent them from displaying in your sidebar.

To do this, simply 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 …

How To Find Your WordPress Post ID

Plugins

If you need to know your post or page IDs on a regular basis, then here are a few FREE plugins you may find useful:

Reveal IDs

This plugin reveals ids for posts, pages, categories, links, media, users, comments, link categories, custom taxonomies, custom post types, and tags. It also adds a sortable column header …

How To Find Your WordPress Post ID

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

Download the plugin here: Reveal IDs

WP Show IDs

WP Show IDs is another plugin that displays your Posts, Pages, Media, Links, Categories, Tags, and Users in the admin tables for easy access. It’s a very lightweight plugin that also supports Custom Post Types / Taxonomies.

Download the plugin here: WP Show IDs

Congratulations! Now you know how to find your page or post IDs.

WordPress is huge and can sometimes be overwhelming about where to start. As you move on to the next Page, you will have a clearer picture of where to start and progress to building a professional WordPress Site.