[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #3653: Site navigation with wp_list_pages() lacks some fundamental elements

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#3653: Site navigation with wp_list_pages() lacks some fundamental elements
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 Reporter:  markjaquith  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  2.2      
Component:  General      |     Version:  2.1      
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:           
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 '''Home Links'''

 If you have a WP page acting as your site's front page, it will have a
 place in the {{{wp_list_pages()}}} navigational system.  If you have your
 blog as your front page, no such link will exist.

 To solve this, you have to either use a plugin (like my "Page Links To"
 plugin) to make a WP page point to a specific URL, or you have to hardcode
 the link into the {{{<ul /}}}  This is inflexible for several reasons:

  * the home link must be either first or last
  * theme must be edited
  * theme authors have to include logic for "page as front page" to know
 whether or not to hardcode the link

 '''Nav links to non-WP pages'''

 Next is the issue of linking to non-WP pages on your site (or on other
 sites) from within your {{{wp_list_pages()}}}  Many people have forums,
 photo galleries or other portions of the site that are not WP powered, but
 should be linked to from within the navigational structure.

 I'd like to move this functionality into WordPress core for 2.2

 Here is how I see it working:

  * New DBX for pages that says something like "This page should link to
 [itself|another WP page|the front page|specified URL]" (dropdown).  If
 "another WP pagae" is selected, a dropdown of the pages will appear next
 to it.  if "specified URL" is elected, a textbox will appear next to it
 for URL typing.

 This would enable people's navigational structure to be theme-independent.

 The next thing that could be moved into core is a way to mark a page as
 hidden... pages that shouldn't appear in {{{wp_list_pages}}}   easy to do
 now that we have a filter for global page excludes.

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