[wp-testers] Page as home and List Pages

[Michael B]

Personally, I wouldn't care about the ability to code links from other sites
into that navigation.  I think the ability to add additional <li> to the
<ul> is fine.  My concern was with the new functionality, and the goal of
making WP a little more CMS useful (assumption on my part).  I know from
working with clients, they want a home link, and can see this issue coming
up on a regular basis in the forums.  Obviously another work around would be
to give the desired page a slug of Home, and for most that would be fine, as
they won't be be changing the page often.  I simply thought an intuitive
handling of the concept from a navigation standpoint would be nice.

Thanks for the code snippet.

Michael


On 12/23/06, Mark Jaquith <mark.wordpress at txfx.net> wrote:
>
> On Dec 22, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Michael B wrote:
>
> > While testing 2.1, I've noticed that if I Create a Page to be the
> > "home"
> > page, and do a simple horizontal navigation such as
> > <ul>
> >        <li class="<?php if (is_home()) {echo 'page_item
> > current_page_item';
> > } ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/">Home</a></li>
> >         <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?>
> > </ul>
> >
> > Both the  page and a home link show in the nav bar.
>
> There is a filter for wp_list_page() exclusions in WP 2.1 called
> wp_list_pages_excludes.  It passes an array of excluded page IDs (as
> manually passed to the function) and you can modify the array and
> return it.  So you could implement that in the theme's functions.php
>
> (untested example)
>
> > <?php
> >
> > function yourthemeprefix_remove_home_link($excludes) {
> >       // quick exit if we're not showing a page up front or if the front
> > page is already excluded
> >       if ( 'page' != get_option('show_on_front') || in_array(get_option
> > ('page_on_front'), $excludes) )
> >               return $excludes;
> >       $excludes[] = get_option('page_on_front');
> >       return $excludes;
> > }
> >
> > add_filter('wp_list_pages_excludes',
> > 'yourthemeprefix_remove_home_link');
> >
> > ?>
>
> The best option, I think, is not to hardcode the "Home" link in the
> theme.  If they want a Home link in their wp_list_pages() output,
> they can use my Page Links To [1] plugin to do that.  That'll work no
> matter what theme they're using, and they'll be able to manually
> place the link (your code forces it to always be first).
>
> What would you think about making that functionality part of core for
> 2.2 or beyond?  It seems to be a common problem... people frequently
> want their wp_list_pages() output to have links to non-page WP
> content or non-WP content (like their Flickr page or their site's
> forums).
>
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> Mark Jaquith
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