Nice Navigation

August 16, 2012

Nice Navigation Plugin

A widget that add a list of your pages as a list with option to expand and collaps the page tree with a nice slide animation effect.

This plugin adds a widget that makes your page list expandable/collapsible with a nice slide animation effect.

Nice Navigation Features and highlights:

  • Simple and nice collapsible/expandable menu with your pages
  • Better overview over your pages
  • Instantly navigate to sub-pages
  • Uses jQuery for a nice animation effect (hence the name)
  • Users with JavaScript disabled will se a regular menu
  • No downsides for SEO/Google, all pages still browsable by search engines
  • All arguments/options available for wp_list_pages is available for this plugin/widget.
  • Styles can be overridden with your own custom CSS
  • Looks cool! 😉

Donation and more plugins

Installation

  1. Upload the folder “nice-navigation” to “/wp-content/plugins/”
  2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
  3. Go to Appearance > Widgets and you will find the Nice Navigation there

Screenshots

  1. It's your menu. Before and after Nice Navigation.

    It's your menu. Before and after Nice Navigation.

  2. Nice Navigation widget configuration. Choose function and layout/look.

    Nice Navigation widget configuration. Choose function and layout/look.

Changelog

1.6

  • …and another small fix. I suck at this!

1.5

  • Fixed bug that caused the widget to not work in all themes. Should work in all/most themes now.

1.4

  • Fixed a PHP short tag.

1.3

  • Works a lot faster with sites with many pages. Hooray!
  • Added option to make a click a the parent link expand the tree and not follow the link
  • Does not load CSS or scripts in admin
  • Small fix to CSS to make selected post bold
  • Hopefully loads scripts and styles via https if that’s being used on the site

1.2

  • wp_enqueue_style uses media screen. Hopefully this works better with gzip/minifiy-plugins. Thanks to http://twitter.com/JohannesHoppe/ for mentioning this.

1.1

  • Plugin now available on wordpress.org
  • Moved JavaScript and CSS to external files
  • Arrows now have transparent backgrounds

1

  • First public version.

Details

  • Version: 1.6
  • Active installations: 300
  • WordPress Version: 3.3
  • Tested up to: 3.4.2

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