Technokinetics

Just a quick update: As of v1.0, Alt Link Text adds a checkbox that lets you easily exclude Pages from your navigation menus. Any other feature requests, please let me know: tim @ technokinetics .com.

Thanks,

Tim

Check your theme files (you’ll find them in wp-content/themes/yourthemefolder/), starting with header.php.

You’re looking for the line of code that contains wp_list_pages(‘some_parameters_go_here=true’). You need to add “&sort_column=menu_order” to give something like wp_list_pages(‘some_parameters_go_here=true&sort_column=menu_order’).

Hope that makes sense (if not, check the codex page linked to above).

Good luck. ??
Tim

You may need to add “sort_column=menu_order” to the code generating your page list (see here for details).

The extra meta tag is probably coming from your header.php theme file. If it is, then just delete it from there.

Not 100% clear what you’re asking, but if you’ve lost the dashboard try https://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin

Tim

Hi,

This has come up a couple of times recently. You might be interested in this.

Tim

This might do what you want:

Create a Page called Splash Page, and set it as your home page in the WP dashboard. This will be at https://www.site.com/.

Create another page called “Home”. This will be at https://www.site.com/home/.

Exclude your Splash Page from your main navigation using wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&exclude=1’), but replacing 1 with your Splash Page’s ID.

Tim

This is one of the (few) things about WordPress that could do with some work for future releases. I share your frustration (but can’t help, sorry).

Depending on where the unclosed <p> tags appear this may be a stupid question, but might it be your single.php theme file?

FWIW, it seems like a sort of strange default to me to prefix titles with the » character

The assumption is that you’ll prefix the page title with your site title, and so want a separator to go between them.

Does it depend on whether they’re logged in?

There’s something else to configure. Under Settings > General there’s a box labelled “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”. Check that that’s unchecked.

I’ve used workarounds in the past too. I’ve seen at least four different ways of doing this, but they all have their drawbacks.

> I was just sharing what I do on occasion, not trying to discount your work.

Don’t worry; no offence taken. I just felt the need to explain. ??

Good luck with the plugin.

If you want to look at doing this manually (e.g. for WPMU), you can:

(a) Store the output of wp_list_pages in a variable using $page_menu_list = wp_list_pages('echo=0');
(b) Replace long titles with short titles using $page_menu_list = preg_replace('/Long Title/','Short Title',$page_menu_list); (repeat as required for multiple replacements)
(c) Output the result using echo $page_menu_list;

Tim

Would you mind giving the plugin another try? There’s a more recent version than the one you used which fixes the only bug reported so far.

If it still doesn’t work for you, I’d really appreciate an email (to tim @ technokinetics .com) with the details so that I can try to figure out why. I’d rather not release this if it isn’t going to work for a significant number of users. Thanks.

I’ll also look into making it WPMU compatible in a future version.