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Wordpress Plugin to Change Website Link Names

Written by Tara: Freelance Designer on Tuesday, 7 of October , 2008 at 12:23 pm

I was recently trying to put together a website using wordpress and wanted to be able to change the link names using wp_list_pages. I hadn’t realised before that you can’t have a different page heading to your link name, so for example if on my front page I wanted the title to be ‘Welcome to my website” the link in my navigation using wp_list_pages would also say “welcome to my website” when I really just wanted it to say home. I knew I could just hand code it but I wanted my client to be able to easily add pages without messing about, so I searched for a plugin.

After a big search I still hadn’t found one and had little response from the Wordpress forum so I tried the forum over at blogging tips where help was much more forthcoming. Sarah from Stuff by Sarah kindly created a plugin called Page Menu Editor which did exactly what I needed and I am sure will be useful to many people. Sarah’s website also has a lot of other plugins and advice which are well worth a look.

Category: General Graphic Design, Web Design, Blogging

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Comment by gareth - web design

Made Thursday, 9 of October , 2008 at 9:05 am

Thanks this would have helped me in my previous project. I’ve just designed and built a mobile phone website totally in wordpress it was a marathon site.

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Comment by Helen

Made Friday, 10 of October , 2008 at 4:34 pm

Thanks for the link, http://www.stuffbysarah.net seems a really cool site.

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Comment by Jeremy O'Connell

Made Friday, 10 of October , 2008 at 8:20 pm

I like WP but I’m concerned about their security. They seem to have a new patch constantly. For instance, this comment: “A few weeks ago, we noticed that someone had managed to insert a bunch of spam links into our WordPress header and footer. We quickly updated to the latest version (2.3.3 at the time), thinking it would fix the security hole. However, this happened again, and seems to be happening on WordPress blogs all across the Internet.” You have another entry about a WP blog being a CM system and this is why we hesitate to use their platform. Any thoughts?

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Comment by The 'sell photos online' dude

Made Sunday, 12 of October , 2008 at 4:56 pm

I too love WordPress. I think that WordPress is a really innovative platform, allowing bloggers, designers, artists etc to communicate to wider audiences, much easier than previously. It’ll all get much more innovative and advanced I’m sure.

BTW, great blog, and inspiring ideas. Thanks :)

Martin

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Comment by Vin Suave

Made Monday, 13 of October , 2008 at 2:08 am

I find wordpress to be relatively easier to use compared to many of the other platforms available on the market. The user interface is friendly and easy to implement.

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Comment by Fred

Made Monday, 13 of October , 2008 at 4:18 am

Sarah has a lot of interesting plugins. I’ve bookmarked it. Thanks.

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Comment by Trent

Made Tuesday, 14 of October , 2008 at 3:25 am

Thanks for the link to the plugin. I am always looking for useful wordpress plugins and this one will be a good addition.

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Comment by Kevin W.

Made Tuesday, 14 of October , 2008 at 5:37 am

good article, very useful.

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Comment by shaun - audio book lover

Made Wednesday, 15 of October , 2008 at 4:15 pm

Thanks for that I use wordpress a lot, has anyone come across a plugin that will take a zip file of articles and post them to your blog over a period of time. I have seen it somewhere but cant find it anywhere know ! typical

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Comment by Phil

Made Wednesday, 15 of October , 2008 at 8:22 pm

A very timely post - for me.
I just started using Wordpress a week ago, after being a long time Joomla user, and I am quite pleased with it; but there are some little irritations alon the lines of what you describe here. Fortunately, there is a very active plugin community - which is partly what finally decided it for me.
What I am trying to find just now is a plugin or other hack whereby I can display different sidebars for each category - instead of being stuck with the same sidebar for each post - anyone have any suggestions?

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Comment by amelia

Made Friday, 17 of October , 2008 at 3:52 am

great post. i will apply that too on my page. I have been searching codes recently and your article is of great help. thanks!

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Comment by Roger Hamilton

Made Friday, 17 of October , 2008 at 12:39 pm

Not sure if wordpress is going change how that functions but plugins are always there to save the day!

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Comment by Matt

Made Saturday, 18 of October , 2008 at 6:38 am

I’m glad you posted this, I was looking for a similar type of plugin, I’m about to checkout the forum.

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Comment by Tod

Made Sunday, 19 of October , 2008 at 1:03 am

I am using an automated software that takes care of everything for me…

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Comment by the 'Hawaii News' guy

Made Monday, 20 of October , 2008 at 10:47 am

Nice find and thanks for the heads up.
This looks like a very useful plugin and the fact that it works with All-in-one-seo is a big plus.

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Comment by Peter on virtual vesting

Made Tuesday, 21 of October , 2008 at 4:07 pm

Those kind of plugins are always helpful, especially in wordpress. Wordpress is a great blogging platform and if you don’t know css and html, plugins are a must. Thanks for sharing.

Peter

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Comment by Stacy

Made Tuesday, 21 of October , 2008 at 4:19 pm

Thanks, I’ve bookmarked the link. Right now I have an html page and it’s such a pain to grow it so I’m definitely planning on focusing on wordpress from now on.

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Comment by Eskil

Made Tuesday, 21 of October , 2008 at 8:48 pm

I have bookmarked the link. I will also try to learn using wordpress since I find pure html webpages are too complicated for me.

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Comment by CraigC

Made Saturday, 25 of October , 2008 at 7:50 am

Thanks for the helpful tips!

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Comment by Sue

Made Saturday, 25 of October , 2008 at 9:04 am

I’ve recently started using WP and still have a lot to learn.

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Comment by John

Made Saturday, 25 of October , 2008 at 8:17 pm

Thanks for that resourse. I’ve been searching for something just like the. Security on WP is somewhat of a problem, but they are pretty much on top of it with their updates.

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Comment by tinyurl clone

Made Monday, 27 of October , 2008 at 1:32 am

Ive been wanting to master the art of wordpress. this is a great help for me since I am on the process of learning. thanks!

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Comment by lauracj

Made Monday, 27 of October , 2008 at 4:19 pm

It’s fantastic that the web industry is so willing to help each other out. If you do not get the answer you are looking for from one blog you will most certainly find it from someone on another blog.
I think word press is such great tool for people getting started in the web business, there is so much support!

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Comment by Dave

Made Tuesday, 28 of October , 2008 at 4:24 am

I have been using WordPress for a couple of months.
It is a real pleasure to use, compared to other
interface on my Xeoware alternative medicine blog.
It is so easy to use.
WordPress rarely gives me any problems, in the
day to day maintenance of my blogs.

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Comment by Mark

Made Tuesday, 28 of October , 2008 at 9:51 am

Thanks for that resourse. I’ve been searching for something just like the. Security on WP is somewhat of a problem, but they are pretty much on top of it with their updates.Fortunately, there is a very active plugin community - which is partly what finally decided it for me.

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Comment by Popular Technology

Made Tuesday, 28 of October , 2008 at 7:16 pm

I made a mistake of changing my link structure without implementing a special plugin in first… the result, i lost my SE traffic!

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Comment by Tony

Made Wednesday, 29 of October , 2008 at 3:30 pm

Wordpress is great, tanks for the plugin info. Re. the security issues - you have to keep everything constantly updated which can be a pain if you run a number of blogs.

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Comment by Kim Ace

Made Thursday, 30 of October , 2008 at 9:50 am

That is indeed very useful plugin. Thanks for sharing. It will be much easier too change page link names now, i really don’t like hard coding…

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Comment by Sean

Made Thursday, 30 of October , 2008 at 11:23 pm

I bookmarked this link thank you for posting it has been very helpful!

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Comment by mike

Made Friday, 31 of October , 2008 at 2:19 am

Great forum thanks for the tip!

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Comment by Chris

Made Friday, 31 of October , 2008 at 3:49 am

Thanks. Great resource.

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Comment by Chris

Made Friday, 31 of October , 2008 at 3:54 am

You can also check on Digital point and Warrior forum.

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Comment by Lexli

Made Friday, 31 of October , 2008 at 5:03 pm

Seems like everyday someone makes a really cool WP plug-in. I’ve never heard of this one before, but will definitely be adding it to my blog.

Thanks for the info!

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Comment by Big Red Notebook

Made Friday, 31 of October , 2008 at 10:29 pm

That’s part of the beauty of Wordpress–you want a way to fix something and someone can code it, lickety-split. Gotta love the flexibility.

The above notes re: security are troublesome, though.

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Comment by John Derrick

Made Saturday, 1 of November , 2008 at 8:37 am

My blog uses wordpress.

On one hand wordpress is extremely powerful and it takes a lot less time to create and run than a static link site, but it has some limitations also, like how each post is limited by the theme css.

It covers everything

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Comment by daddy

Made Saturday, 1 of November , 2008 at 8:44 am

Thanks for your recommendation. That Page Menu Editor that you suggest is very handy. Sarah is also very helpful.

I’ve just wondering if someone also know how to have more than 1 site map in wordpress because I want to separate my post into different site map for 100 post on each site map. I’m looking forward, someone can give me a suggestion, especially from you Tara. Many Thanks.

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Comment by iRobot

Made Saturday, 1 of November , 2008 at 8:42 pm

Thanks for the plugin link - this is what I was looking for!

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Comment by web design newbie

Made Saturday, 1 of November , 2008 at 9:03 pm

The Stuff by Sarah blog is one of my favourite resources for plugins. I will go and check out the forums on Blogging Tips.

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Comment by Angel

Made Saturday, 1 of November , 2008 at 10:46 pm

Big Red Notebook

You have a very nice site. Lots of good information!

Thanks

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Comment by Addicting Games Online

Made Sunday, 2 of November , 2008 at 1:53 am

hmm…very interesting. I haven’t heard of the stuff by sarah site and after a quick look it looks very informing.

I will definitely be checking it out more.
Thanks

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Comment by misbah online

Made Sunday, 2 of November , 2008 at 3:23 am

if you try using wp_lists_page, I just install my wp in own domain, and still confuse with syntax and code :D

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Comment by Roger Hamilton

Made Sunday, 2 of November , 2008 at 7:13 am

Will the plugin work with the upcoming 2.7?

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Comment by Gutscheine, Gutscheincodes

Made Sunday, 2 of November , 2008 at 7:26 pm

You have a very nice blog and i’ve bookmark your Blog. Thanks for the useful Information

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Comment by wotlk leveling

Made Monday, 3 of November , 2008 at 4:46 am

where can i download it?

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Comment by Jason

Made Monday, 3 of November , 2008 at 10:51 am

Thanks soooo much for showing me ’stuff by Sarah. Great stuff and I like here style.

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Comment by Will Dizon

Made Monday, 3 of November , 2008 at 3:25 pm

Thanks, I’m setting up my wordpress blog and I’ll bookmark this for future reference.

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Comment by Molly

Made Monday, 3 of November , 2008 at 5:03 pm

Wordpress can sometimes be confusing. Great article. Thanks.

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Comment by web development design

Made Tuesday, 4 of November , 2008 at 12:28 am

Have it bookmarked. I am compiling a list of Wordpress plugins that are critical to SEO, usability and conversions and this is now added to the list. Thanks! I’ll post the list later - once my blog is up.

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Comment by John Coutts

Made Tuesday, 4 of November , 2008 at 6:11 pm

That is one very handy WP plugin! I’ve been looking for something like this too. It seems such an obvious thing, but maybe not to the WP people. Thanks!
John.

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Comment by John

Made Tuesday, 4 of November , 2008 at 7:01 pm

Thanks. I’ve been looking for something that could help with this. One of a few wordpress niggles

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Comment by Tammy Powell

Made Tuesday, 4 of November , 2008 at 11:14 pm

That is a great WP plugin. Thank you for letting us know about Stuff By Sarah.

Tammy

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Comment by Arindam

Made Tuesday, 4 of November , 2008 at 11:16 pm

stuff by sarah? great, i’ll have to check it out. sounds like she’s a real wp queen. :)

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Comment by Boise Real Estate Ben

Made Wednesday, 5 of November , 2008 at 12:36 am

I think that this is just awesome. I have been working with wordpress for a long time and am delighted by the plugin.

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Comment by Scott Pape Barefoot Investor

Made Wednesday, 5 of November , 2008 at 1:51 am

Thanks for that. Will have to check out Stuff by Sarah for sure!

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Comment by Warren Wojnowski

Made Thursday, 6 of November , 2008 at 12:11 am

Thanks for the tip. I had run into the same problem a while back on one of my wordpress blogs and between that and some other nuances, I’ve been hesitant to dive into WP in a bigger way.

I’m curious, and I apologize if this takes us way off topic, but do you have any thoughts on WP vs. Moveable Type?

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Comment by John Philips

Made Thursday, 6 of November , 2008 at 3:59 am

Is working like a charm for me!

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Comment by Rachel

Made Friday, 7 of November , 2008 at 5:25 am

Sarah’s site is down, do you know anywhere else that I can download her plugins?

Thanks for the post.
Rachel
AllGraphicDesign.com

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Comment by Yasir Khan

Made Friday, 7 of November , 2008 at 6:55 am

Thanks for the info! Increased my knowledge.

Yasir

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Comment by Field-N-Water

Made Friday, 7 of November , 2008 at 11:37 am

I run two wordpress blogs and this information will help me for sure. I was pulling my hair out over this same situation. Thanks so much for the plugin.

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Comment by Daniel

Made Saturday, 8 of November , 2008 at 3:30 am

I was looking for something like this, that plugin is exactly what I need. Thanks!

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Comment by arutakun

Made Sunday, 9 of November , 2008 at 3:11 am

nice info..add my knowledge about wp
thanks

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Comment by Graphic Design Wigan

Made Sunday, 9 of November , 2008 at 3:13 pm

Hi
Sarahs site looks very helpfull! I have added to favorites. Thanks for sharing with with us!!

Regards
Taz

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Comment by Striper Joshua

Made Sunday, 9 of November , 2008 at 6:27 pm

Thanks!
Great plugin — there seem to be plugin’s for almost everything IF you can find them.
Of course I can hand code anything (with a little difficulty)

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Comment by malique

Made Sunday, 9 of November , 2008 at 7:19 pm

Nice blog and nice info, more knowlege to me about wordpress

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Comment by Cahyo

Made Monday, 10 of November , 2008 at 1:15 am

Great article, thanks for knowledge about WP

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Made Monday, 10 of November , 2008 at 1:18 am

Thanks for the useful Information

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Comment by Wahyudi

Made Monday, 10 of November , 2008 at 8:32 am

Thank’s for this information.

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Comment by mark

Made Tuesday, 11 of November , 2008 at 10:23 am

this is a really useful plugin. It is going to come in very useful. its going to svea lot of messing about for myself and clients alike.

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Comment by Web Design Newbie

Made Tuesday, 11 of November , 2008 at 11:32 am

Wow, great stuff. I usually blog on Sarah’s site too, and she features the most useful software on her site. I will also be using this plugin. Thank you

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Comment by web design blog | pxforce

Made Tuesday, 11 of November , 2008 at 6:07 pm

great! thanks for useful content!

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Comment by Amy Evans

Made Thursday, 13 of November , 2008 at 3:43 am

this is a really useful plugin

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Made Friday, 14 of November , 2008 at 12:29 pm

great plugin, thanks for sharing ;)

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Made Monday, 17 of November , 2008 at 7:56 am

thanks for the sharing, stumbled your post :) cheers.

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Comment by Kirk

Made Tuesday, 18 of November , 2008 at 6:08 pm

wow many thanks, already thought of applying this myself…

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Comment by Mat

Made Tuesday, 18 of November , 2008 at 8:06 pm

Thanks for the advice :)

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Comment by jo

Made Tuesday, 18 of November , 2008 at 8:10 pm

I dont normally use word press but i think after looking at these links i might.

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Comment by Budi

Made Wednesday, 19 of November , 2008 at 10:32 pm

Hi, thanks for the info, because I’m planning to change my blog into wordpress.

Regards
Budi

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Comment by Mike - Shared Hosting

Made Thursday, 20 of November , 2008 at 8:52 pm

Thanks for the plugin. I will implement that onto a few of my blogs, and keep it in my back pocket for any clients I get who want this type of functionality. Better to have it and impress the client if they want it.

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