Change WP menu bar from pages to posts?

[christianwins]

Is there a plugin in wordpress to change the menu bar from Pages to Posts? I know some themes allow you to do this.

[kirkward]

One suggestion ...

Get the "Exclude Pages" from navigation plugin and create pages instead of posts when you have something to post. I believe there are plugins that will allow you to treat a page as a post, so you can activate that on the page when needed.

The exclude pages plugin allows you to control whether a page is included in the menu or not.

[christianwins]

Thanks Kirkward,

That should help, do you know the names of any of those plugins that allow you to treat a page as a post? I have been searching for one, but it must be under different words.

[wade_watson]

I don't think you'll find a plugin of that type because linking to posts on a navigation bar is a theme design trait. If you look around, there are themes that feature settings allowing you to choose either pages or categories for navbar display.

I don't really care for the results that most themes give you when you click to a category and I've made better use of pages for a similar purpose. I set up special main pages for each category-- with an intro and link index-- and let links to those pages show on the navbar. This allows the visitor to enter a sort of subsite dedicated to that category and makes category navigation easier.

I do use the Exclude Pages (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/) plugin to make sure other pages (such as the About page) don't show on the navbar. I also like the AZIndex (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/azindex/) plugin, which allows me to not only make an easy index page for the whole site, but indexes for the individual categories.

Wade Watson

[kirkward]

Maybe you could edit the menu code of your theme and replace the part where it lists pages with the wp_list_categories function with a new instance for each category and have the dropdown show the posts for each category?

[wade_watson]

It just occurred to me (as I was setting up a theme) that one of my favorite free themes, Inove, lets you choose to show either pages or categories on the navbar. If you haven't tried Inove, I suggest it. It's a good solid performer, easy get looking nice quickly and has some really useful special settings.

Wade

[kirkward]

It just occurred to me (as I was setting up a theme) that one of my favorite free themes, Inove, lets you choose to show either pages or categories on the navbar. If you haven't tried Inove, I suggest it. It's a good solid performer, easy get looking nice quickly and has some really useful special settings.

Wade
That's a very handy thing to have built into a theme. I've had it added manually to themes, but having it built in is great. I'm going to see if I can Google it and get a copy for one of my sites.

[jkgourmet]

I think atahualpa allows you to do this too. I know that suffusion does; however, you can not use pages for the display on the magazine template.