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Stephanie Leary

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Call a navigation menu using a shortcode

July 13, 2010 Stephanie Leary 50 Comments

Today I came across a weird situation: I needed to place a navigation menu in the content of a page. A shortcode was the obvious solution, but there doesn't appear to be one built in for menus. I created this one very quickly: Place this in functions.php, then use [menu … [Read more...] about Call a navigation menu using a shortcode

WordPress Navigation, shortcodes

Listing children on empty pages as a filter

June 3, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Yesterday, I showed you how to automatically list child pages if a page's content is empty. That code would go in your theme's page.php file. What if you wanted to use it in any theme? The best solution is to turn it into a little plugin: Paste the code into a file in your … [Read more...] about Listing children on empty pages as a filter

WordPress Navigation, Posts and Pages

Including external links in WordPress navigation menus

August 11, 2009 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

Sometimes you need to link to something other than a WordPress page in your navigation menu. Perhaps you've built a photo gallery in ZenPhoto. How do you get it into your menu without hand-coding all your links? The Page Links To plugin allows you to do just that. Install the … [Read more...] about Including external links in WordPress navigation menus

WordPress menus, Navigation, Permalinks

Listing child pages

August 9, 2009 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

The Codex offers a way to list the children of the current page by adding this to your theme: … [Read more...] about Listing child pages

WordPress Navigation, pages, Posts and Pages, template tags

Ordering pages

August 7, 2009 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Ordering pages in WordPress is a huge pain. The developers acknowledge this with a little message on the Edit Page screen: "We know this is a little janky, it'll be better in future releases." The Quick Edit feature makes it a little easier, but you still have to edit lots of … [Read more...] about Ordering pages

WordPress menus, Navigation, page order

Previous and Next links for pages

July 5, 2009 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Ever want to let your visitors browse your pages in order? You've probably discovered that previous_posts_link and next_posts_link don't work on pages. I've written a plugin, Next Page, to solve the problem. You'll get an options screen allowing you to specify the language of … [Read more...] about Previous and Next links for pages

WordPress Navigation, page order, Permalinks

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I’m a front end developer at Equinox OLI, working on open source library software. I was previously a freelance WordPress developer in higher education. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

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