=== simple Section Navigation Widget === Contributors: Jacob M Goldman (C. Murray Consulting) Donate link: http://www.cmurrayconsulting.com/software/wordpress-simple-section-navigation/ Tags: navigation, section, cms, pages Requires at least: 2.7 Tested up to: 2.7.1 Stable tag: 1.2 Adds a widget to your sidebar for section based navigation. Essential for CMS implementations! The title of the widget is the top level page within the current section. Shows all page siblings (except on the top level page), all parents and grandparents (and higher), the siblings of all parents and grandparents (up to top level page), and any immediate children of the current page. Can also be called by a function inside template files. May exclude any pages or sections. Uses standard WordPress navigation classes for easy styling. == Description == Adds a widget to your sidebar for section based navigation. Essential for CMS implementations! The title of the widget is the top level page within the current section. Shows all page siblings (except on the top level page), all parents and grandparents (and higher), the siblings of all parents and grandparents (up to top level page), and any immediate children of the current page. Can also be called by a function inside template files. It includes an easy to use configuration panel inside the WordPress settings menu. From this panel you can: 1. Determine whether the section navigation widget should appear on the home page 2. Override standard behavior and have the widget show all pages in the current section 3. Determine whether the widget should appear even if the section only has one page (the top level) 4. Provide a list of pages to exclude from the output 5. Determine whether the section navigation should still appear when viewing excluded pages 6. Determine whether the section title should be linked The widget uses standard WordPress navigation classes, in addition to a unique class around the widget, for easy styling. Compatible with WordPress MU. Considerable under the hood changes in 1.2 fixes page flattening / depth issue by "excluding" instead of "including" pages. == Installation == 1. Install easily with the WordPress plugin control panel or manually download the plugin and upload the extracted folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress 3. Configure the plugin by going to the "Section Nav" menu item under "Settings" 4. Widget users can add it to the sidebar by going to the "Widgets" menu under "Appearance" and adding the "Simple Section Nav" widget 5. Template authors can follow the instructions in the "Section Nav" menu to easily add it to a widget-less template. == Screenshots == 1. Sceenshot of output, using widget. "Get Informed" is a top level pages, and "Clinics" is a sub page. 2. Screenshot of configuration panel. == Arbitrary section == v1.1 * Added ability to link heading, which also wraps it in a unique id * Improved excluded pages handling * Ability to exclude entire sections from using the widget v1.1.2 * Fixed occassional flattening or wrong order of hierarchical pages v1.2 * DEFINITIVE FIX FOR PAGE FLATTENING / FLAT HIERARCHY / NO DEPTH ISSUES * Performance improvements Future features: * Ability to include an "Overview" link that links to top level page within section * Ability to set a maximum page depth for display in widget * Ability to treat blog categories as sub pages of blog home * Light weight mode for sites with only 2 levels of pages