How to show or exclude Certain Categories in a Menu – WordPress

If you want show only some categories in wordpress menu than use following command in header.php.

<ul style=”float:left; width:840px;”>
php wp_list_categories(‘orderby=name&include=5,4,8,9,52,65,35’); ?>
ul>

If you want exclude some categories in wordpress menu than use following command in header.php.

840px;”>
php wp_list_categories(‘orderby=name&exclude=5,4,8,9,52,65,35’); ?>
</ul>

Following Options we can use with “wp_list_categories” method.

<?php wp_list_categories( $args ); ?>

args = array(
'show_option_all' => ,
'orderby' => 'name',
'order' => 'ASC',
'show_last_update' => 0,
'style' => 'list',
'show_count' => 0,
'hide_empty' => 1,
'use_desc_for_title' => 1,
'child_of' => 0,
'feed' => ,
'feed_type' => ,
'feed_image' => ,
'exclude' => ,
'exclude_tree' => ,
'include' => ,
'current_category' => 0,
'hierarchical' => true,
'title_li' => __( 'Categories' ),
'number' => NULL,
'echo' => 1,
'depth' => 0 ); ?>

By default, the usage shows:

• No link to all categories
• Sorts the list of Categories by the Category name in ascending order
• Does not show the last update (last updated post in each Category)
• Displayed in an unordered list style
• Does not show the post count
• Displays only Categories with posts
• Sets the title attribute to the Category Description
• Is not restricted to the child_of any Category
• No feed or feed image used
• Does not exclude any Category and includes all Categories
• Displays the active Category with the CSS Class-Suffix ‘ current-cat’
• Shows the Categories in hierarchical indented fashion
• Display Category as the heading over the list
• No SQL LIMIT is imposed (‘number’ => 0 is not shown above)
• Displays (echos) the categories
• No limit to depth
• All categories.