I was, to say the least, shocked to find out that the Widget system produced by automattic.com didn’t include the ability to customize the navigation links provided by the wisdom of the WordPress developers.
This widget system comes with two widgets that override the Meta and Pages widgets provided by automattic.com to include options taking advantage of link manipulation regarding the Pages and Meta widgets. The options follow:
- Pages
- Sort - Allows you to sort pages by database column name. Right now you have to look at and type in the database column name directly. Perhaps in a future version I, or someone else, will set up a select list.
- Order - A select list containg Asc for ascending or Desc for descending order.
- Depth - A numerical value indicating to what depth you want to display for your page hierarchy. Leave this blank for infinite.
- Show Date - A select list that allows you to choose no date to display, the Post Date, or the Modified Date.
- Meta
- Include Register Link - When checked displays the register link, not checked hides it.
- Include Login Link - When checked displays the login/logout link, not checked hides it.
- Include RSS - When checked displays the main post RSS link, not checked hides it.
- Include Comment RSS - When checked displays the comments RSS link, not checked hides it.
- Include WordPress Link - When checked displays the WordPress link, not checked hides it.
WidgetWorks is also a system allowing you to include new widgets in the WidgetWorks folder. This “system”, such that it is, will likely be replaced by a more permanent solution in the future. I recently became aware of Stewart’s Theme Widgets which is also a viable system. Perhaps I’ll alter the overridden widgets to work with his system as well.
Of course, both systems will likely be deprecated completely once WordPress adds this capability to its core.
Ahh well…in the meantime, have fun and I hope these can be of use to someone.
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