[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #2465: Page should also have a Link type

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#2465: Page should also have a Link type
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       Id:  2465            |      Status:  new                     
Component:  Administration  |    Modified:  Thu Feb 16 21:20:25 2006
 Severity:  enhancement     |   Milestone:  2.1                     
 Priority:  low             |     Version:  1.2                     
    Owner:  anonymous       |    Reporter:  FireMotion              
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 The sidebar contains a navigation outline of the Pages. It would be useful
 to have Wordpress be able to include external links in that navigational
 outline.

 '''Example'''
 There are these pages, and this is displayed in the sidebar:
 {{{
 Home
 About
 Credits
 Example
 Copyright
 }}}

 It would be useful if within these pages, that ''Example'' points to
 ''http://www.example.com/'' instead of an internal page with page_id.

 '''Solution'''
 There should be three types of posts:
 {{{
 1) Post
 2) Page
 3) Link
 }}}

 Where Link is a type of Page, and it will go directly to the designated
 link. Current workaround is to display the links list that already exists
 within Wordpress, but they are seperate from the pages navigation.
 Combining the two will result in more integrated websites.

 Another possibility is to create two types of links: Link and Include,
 where the latter one will include a php file before or after [or before
 AND after] the page text. This way one can integrate guestbooks, or add a
 dynamic contact form, etc., while keeping the theme layout and Wordpress
 functions (template tags) available (but after implementing this, people
 who want to use this functionality will need to change some code in their
 themes pages.)

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