Page Lists Plus v0.1.2

Oct 22nd, 2008

There’s a new version of Page Lists Plus now available for download from the WordPress Plugin Repository. Here are some of the new features:

  • Add a “Home” link at the start of your Page lists
  • Add class=”first_item” to the first item in your Page lists (useful if you want to use a Page list as a horizontal navigation menu with separators between items)
  • Add span tags inside all list items (again, useful for styling)
  • Choose which options are visible on the Write > Page and Manage > Page screens to avoid clutter

If you’re already using Page Lists Plus and any of that looks useful to you, then you may want to upgrade. If you aren’t yet using Page Lists Plus, then there a now a few more reasons why you might want to.

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New Plugin: Page Lists Plus

Oct 15th, 2008

A month ago today, I made my first plugin available to the general public: Alt Link Text. This was a simple plugin that made it easy to link to Pages in navigation menus using link text different to the page title.

User feedback has been very good, but it turns out that there are lots of similar things that people would love the plugin to do as well. Suggestions for extra features include making link title attributes editable, providing a way of excluding links from page menus, and making it easy to add rel=”nofollow” to links, etc.

These are all great ideas, so I’ve added them to the plugin.

Now that the plugin does much more than let you specify alternative text for your links, the name “Alt Link Text” doesn’t quite seem to cover it. What the plugin now does is add a range of options to the dashboard that make Page lists configurable. So future releases of the plugin will be called “Page Lists Plus”.

You can download Page Lists Plus for testing now.

If you have any bug reports or feature requests, then please to let me know either through the comments below or by email.

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Exclude Page Added to Alt Link Text Plugin

Oct 9th, 2008

Another quick update on the Alt Link Text plugin: It now adds a checkbox to the Write Page and Manage Page screens that lets you easily exclude pages from your page lists. Without the plugin, removing a page from your navigation menu involves editing the PHP in your theme files, but with the plugin you can now do this through the dashboard.

Please note that if you’re upgrading from an earlier version of the plugin, you’ll need to deactivate and then reactivate (otherwise your database table will be missing the column used for the new feature, and you’ll get a couple of error messages before each of your page lists).

When I named the plugin, it was just going to provide a simple way of changing the link text in navigation menus. It now does rather more than that, so I think a name change is in order. What the new name will be, I haven’t quite decided. Suggestions are more than welcome!

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