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Creating Submenus For Your Main Site Links
By Alister Cameron
Expert Author
Article Date: 2009-12-14
If you're using WordPress as a CMS, you may have set up static pages for both a front page (e.g. "Home") and a page to list your latest blog posts (e.g. "Blog"). I did that today for a client site and immediately realized that in the site's main menu the Blog link would look a lot better if it had a submenu containing all the blog categories.
(I didn't want nor did I need a completely separate category menu.) So I threw together this little bit of code that takes care of just that:
<?php
if ( !function_exists('add_blog_cats_to_menu') ) {
function add_blog_cats_to_menu($str) {
$cats = wp_list_categories('title_li=&echo=0');
$title = get_the_title(get_option('page_for_posts'));
return str_replace("title=\"$title\">$title</a>", "title=\"$title\">$title</a><ul>$cats</ul>", $str);
}
add_filter('wp_list_pages', 'add_blog_cats_to_menu', 1);
}
?>
For you programmers out there, this is just a slightly intelligent way to inject the output of wp_list_categories() into the output of wp_list_pages(), at the right place.
If looking at code scares you I've turned it into a plugin. Go to the Admin > Plugins > Add New page in your WordPress installation and search for "add categories to menu", or download it here (give that file a .php extension instead of .txt and upload it).
As soon as I have a live site sporting this plugin, I'll update this post with a link, so you can see a live demo.
I'm likely to update this shortly with a configuration page so you can specify categories to exclude, and so forth. Comment below if you urgently need that.
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About the Author:
Alister Cameron is an accomplished web designer and internet marketing
consultant who turns established subject-matter experts into expert
bloggers. Alister's clients are using blogging and social media to leverage
their offline expertise in the online world, and engage Alister to build
their blogging platform or social network; to train them in writing and
online marketing strategy; and to help them stay up with the latest
developments in blogging and online marketing. Alister's blog is a rich
tapestry of advice, anecdotes and reflections from the frontline of
professional blogging, social media and search engine marketing, and never
without generous dollops of humor and wit.
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