Custom Site Navigation in Sidebar

[raisethebarr]

I am trying to set up site navigation in the sidebar such as seen on this site: http://www.gameaccessoriesguide.com/. When you click one of the pages, the right sidebar shows a "Site Topic" section which lists what it appears to be sibling pages. Below this, there's a section "Articles About This Topic" that seems to show the child pages of that current page. Then when you click through to a child page it shows the parent page in "Site Topic" and the current page and sibling pages in the "Articles About This Topic."

Does anyone know of a plugin for this or a way to code this type of navigation into the sidebar? Thanks in advance,

Ben

http://www.highgroundgaming.com

[vajrasar]

The sidebar in right shows the latest posts in my opinion (not sibling pages) except it leaves the one you are on at the moment and shows other latest posts/pages. Following code will get you started.

First, Enable php in widgets with this code in your functions.php -

add_filter('widget_text','execute_php',100);
function execute_php($html){
     if(strpos($html,"<"."?php")!==false){
          ob_start();
          eval("?".">".$html);
          $html=ob_get_contents();
          ob_end_clean();
     }
     return $html;
}

then paste this code in your primary sidebar in a text widget -

<?php
	global $post;
	$p_id = $post->ID;
	$p_id = array( $p_id );
	
	$args = array(
		'post_type' => 'post',
		'post__not_in' => $p_id,
		'posts_per_page' => 5,
	);
	$side_args = new WP_Query( $args );

	if ($side_args->have_posts()) {
		?>
		<ul>
			<?php
			while ($side_args->have_posts()) {
				$side_args->the_post();
				?>
				<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
			<?php
			}
			?>
		</ul>
		<?php
	}
	?>

change 'post_type' => 'post' to 'post_type' => 'page' if you want to show latest additions in pages.

Articles about this topic is simple, as it can be done via Related post plugins (you can use tags in your posts to do so).

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