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Is current Wordpress page in the hierarchy of some other?

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Wordpress @ 1st OCT 2008

This topic could be interested for those of you who deal with Wordpress theme creations. If you are not one of them, you will not find this interesting at all. Developing a complex Wordpress site with many sections with pages may be limited with Wordpress standard content structure. Posts are in categories. Categories can have subcategories and pages can have subpages. There are some default functions that help you in identification of which element is child and which is parent. But when we need something more advanced, things get complicated.

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WordPress Navigation Management

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Wordpress @ 19th SEP 2008

While searching for new version of Wordpress breadcrumbs plugin, I stumbed upon something I needed for a long time. One of the issues I had with using Wordpress as CMS was its frontsite navigation customization possibilities. Yes, we have default wp_list_pages() function with some options, and yes,  we have wp_list_cats() function with options on its own. But, what if I wanted to make sidebar navigation to be a combination of pages and categories?  This was the problem where I used a lot of custom coding in sidebar.php or header.php file. I found an easier methond with NAVT, Wordpress Navigation List Plugin.

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