Better Section Navigation
Creates a new widget for listing section-based navigation -- essential for contextual navigation. Also implements a template function and a shortcode.
5(4 reviews)
·700 active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Better Section Navigation is a WordPress cms plugin with 700 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Top alternative: White Label CMS.
5/54 reviews
700active installs
15K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
Adds a new widget type you can deploy in your sidebar regions (and/or elsewhere) to display section-based navigation, along with the ability to exclude certain pages from showing up.
The title of the widget is the top level page within the current section. The widget then can show all of the page’s published siblings (except on the top level page), all parents and grandparents (and higher), the siblings of all parents and grandparents (up to top level page), and any immediate children of the current page. It can also be called by a function inside template files.
It includes a simple widget configuration panel. From this panel you can:
- Determine whether the widget should appear on the home page
- Override standard behavior and have the widget show all pages in the current section
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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Changelog
1.7.0
- Security update: fix a cross-site scripting vulnerability that allowed contributor users (and higher) to inject unsanitized HTML into content.
- Correct translation textdomain issues. The plugin’s user-facing text is now fully localizable.
- Miscellaneous other code cleanup.
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