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!