Hi there! I did that for one of my wp projects. I use the “page slug” parameter to get an id for each link to replace it in css with an image. There might be a better way and it includes hacking a few lines of php, but so far it hasn’t caused any errors that I know of.
If you’re interested you could do the following:
In WP 2.1 Open wp-includes/classes.php
Around line 503 you will find the function start_el
at that very line, add the parameter $post_name
Then a few lines down where it says
“$output .= $indent . ‘<li class=”‘ . $css_class . ‘”>”
you need to add your new page slug paramter $page_name in an id or class tag to control it via css. Most of the time I hide the original text with a span tag to make it search friendly, but that’s up to you of course.
The whole start element function looks like this in my file from line 503:
function start_el($output, $page, $depth, $current_page, $args, $post_name) {
if ( $depth )
$indent = str_repeat("t", $depth);
extract($args);
$css_class = 'page_item';
$_current_page = get_page( $current_page );
if ( $page->ID == $current_page )
$css_class .= ' current_page_item';
elseif ( $_current_page && $page->ID == $_current_page->post_parent )
$css_class .= ' current_page_parent';
// $output .= $indent . '<li class="' . $css_class . '"><a href="' . get_page_link($page->ID) . '" title="' . attribute_escape($page->post_title) . '">' . $page->post_title . '</a>';
// fixed by Tdude to give an id for the css
// observe extra variable $post_name initiating function
$output .= $indent . '<li class="' . $css_class . '" id="' . attribute_escape($page->post_name) . '"><a href="' . get_page_link($page->ID) . '" title="' . attribute_escape($page->post_title) . '"><span>' . $page->post_title . '</span></a>';
if ( !empty($show_date) ) {
if ( 'modified' == $show_date )
$time = $page->post_modified;
else
$time = $page->post_date;
$output .= " " . mysql2date($date_format, $time);
}
return $output;
}
I tried to get this answer in the forums a few weeks back and I think I’ve posted my solution, but you know how it is…soo hard to find ??
Best wishes,
T
