# Next & Prev Nav Block question

**URL:** <https://forums.concretecms.org/t/next-prev-nav-block-question/8852>\
**Category:** Using Concrete / Help\
**Created:** [March 9, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/next-prev-nav-block-question/8852 "2025-03-09T17:26:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ArcticSon58](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/arcticson58/32/3495_2.png) [@ArcticSon58](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/ArcticSon58)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/next-prev-nav-block-question/8852/1 "2025-03-09T17:26:45Z")

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Using 9.39 and the Atomik theme. I am making an ‘archive site’ for a friend’s radio program which ran 52 weeks. I decided to use the blog that is in the Atomik theme. I renamed it to Program Archive and created 52 blog entries under that on the Sitemap.

The blog entries in Atomik have the right-column + blog content layout and the right column has a Next & Prev nav block. This works great, but is there a way for it to work after I set the ‘exclude from nav’ attribute of each blog entry page to be excluded?

I found after setting programs 1 and 2 to excluded, they no longer ‘show’ in the next/prev block.

I checked docs and for prior questions along with the block settings of course, and do not see a setting to do this. Would anyone know something I missed?

For background or possible follow-up questions, here is a bit more info.

On the prev/next block, I changed from chronological to sitemap page ordering, but this had no effect.

Reasonably, I did not want the 52-item-long drop menu of blog entries, so I made the actual top-level Program Archive page of this branch a page list. It works well, showing my ‘excluded from nav’ pages as we’d expect.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![JohntheFish](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/johnthefish/32/3767_2.png) [@JohntheFish](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/JohntheFish)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/next-prev-nav-block-question/8852/2 "2025-03-09T18:15:21Z")

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Rather than excluding individual pages, you could see if the _exclude sub pages from nav_ attribute on the parent page has the result you require.

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**Author:** ![ArcticSon58](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/arcticson58/32/3495_2.png) [@ArcticSon58](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/ArcticSon58)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/next-prev-nav-block-question/8852/3 "2025-03-09T19:44:08Z")

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Thank you! That did the trick after a cache clear-- no more 52-entry drop-down and the Next & Prev operation in the 'blog entries is back in action.