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.
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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.
Thanks for the link, http://www.stuffbysarah.net seems a really cool site.
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?
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
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.
Sarah has a lot of interesting plugins. I’ve bookmarked it. Thanks.
Thanks for the link to the plugin. I am always looking for useful wordpress plugins and this one will be a good addition.
good article, very useful.
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
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?
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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Not sure if wordpress is going change how that functions but plugins are always there to save the day!
I’m glad you posted this, I was looking for a similar type of plugin, I’m about to checkout the forum.
I am using an automated software that takes care of everything for me…
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.
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
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.
I have bookmarked the link. I will also try to learn using wordpress since I find pure html webpages are too complicated for me.
Thanks for the helpful tips!
I’ve recently started using WP and still have a lot to learn.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
I made a mistake of changing my link structure without implementing a special plugin in first… the result, i lost my SE traffic!
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.
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…
I bookmarked this link thank you for posting it has been very helpful!
Great forum thanks for the tip!
Thanks. Great resource.
You can also check on Digital point and Warrior forum.
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!
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.
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
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.
Thanks for the plugin link – this is what I was looking for!
The Stuff by Sarah blog is one of my favourite resources for plugins. I will go and check out the forums on Blogging Tips.
Big Red Notebook
You have a very nice site. Lots of good information!
Thanks
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
if you try using wp_lists_page, I just install my wp in own domain, and still confuse with syntax and code
Will the plugin work with the upcoming 2.7?
You have a very nice blog and i’ve bookmark your Blog. Thanks for the useful Information
where can i download it?
Thanks soooo much for showing me ‘stuff by Sarah. Great stuff and I like here style.
Thanks, I’m setting up my wordpress blog and I’ll bookmark this for future reference.
Wordpress can sometimes be confusing. Great article. Thanks.
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.
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.
Thanks. I’ve been looking for something that could help with this. One of a few wordpress niggles