Description
Plugin Information
Smart Navigation Widgets is plugin with 4 widgets ideal for bloggers or any other WordPress users with big archives. Using this plugin, you can display AJAX powered archive widget that shows only small portion of archives to user, and allows him to navigate deeper only when he needs to. No more long lists of date archives that take up a lot of space, or endless list of categories and pages. Plugin is designed for use with hierarchical taxonomies (like category) and hierarchical post types (like pages). But, with some extra options you can allow use of non-hierarchical taxonomies and post types.Included Widgets
- Date Archives: date based decade/year/month/day archives
- Taxonomy Archives: categories and hierarchical custom taxonomies
- Hierarchy Content: pages and hierarchical custom post types
- Custom Source: data provided by your own PHP functions
Main Features
- Detect current date archive to start dates archive hierarchy.
- Select posts or terms to exclude from widgets results.
- Select root post or term to start taxonomies or content hierarchy.
- Detect current root post or term to start taxonomies or content hierarchy.
- Shortcode or function to display widget anywhere on the page.
- Each widget uses AJAX to load items when needed.
- Control items display animation method and speed.
- Control sorting for items displayed with all widgets.
- Enable or disable each plugins widget from settings panel.
Benefits of using this plugin
- If you have too many links on the page because of normal archives widgets, this plugin will show only some links, and that can help with search engines that generally don’t like too many links on a single page (Google recommends up to 100-150 links per page).
- Using these widget can speed up websites with long list of categories, pages or date based archives, depending on the number of items usually displayed. Complex hierarchies can take a lot of SQL queries to generate links (depends on the permalinks settings in WordPress).
- Long lists can be intimidating for users and very hard to follow. Using widgets in this plugin, you will use up less space on the page, and leave it to user to find what they need through drill down hierarchy. Archives are made to be displayed in levels.
For Developers
- Dummy data functions to generate plugin data during development
- Example of filters and functions for Custom Source widget
- Many hooks to control widgets loading, data and other things
Other Features
- Optimized custom functions to get all widgets data
- Easy to customize to fit with any theme
- Custom built JavaScript using jQuery
- Comes with 4 predefined styles
- Support translation and includes POT file
Changelog
Version 1.5 / 2013.04.26.
- Added: New widget: custom source for the hierarchy
- Added: Global settings to enable and disable widgets
- Improved: Function used to render hierarchy trees
- Fixed: Function to get dates having unused level in queries
- Fixed: Invalid level passed to elements that load results
- Fixed: Setting item per level values to 0 hides everything
Version 1.4 / 2013.03.30.
- Added: Use current date for root in date archives widget
- Added: Use current post for root in hierarchy content widget
- Added: Use current item for root in taxonomies archives widget
- Added: Set root post for the hierarchy content widget
- Added: Set root item for the taxonomies archives widget
- Improved: Several core code elements optimized
- Fixed: Expander visible even with no more items to show
- Fixed: Few issues with the loading of inner levels
- Fixed: Taxonomy widget first level items offset
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