Sidebar link to static homepage – problems

This should work:

<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&exclude=6&title_li=<h2>' . __('Navigate') . '</h2><ul><li><a href=http://www.creativeyoungteam.com title=Home>Home</a></li></ul>'); ?>

There may be a tiny bit of extra space between the home link and the first Page link, but you can tweak that in the css.

Note this is invalid XHTML; I left the quotes off the anchor attributes. Parameters for wp_list_pages() are passed in query-string style format, and one limitation is you cannot provide quotes as part of a parameter’s value. We need a list_pages() function (i.e. one that accepts parameters in the PHP style, and is not so limited).

“are you saying there is no way around this problem?”

It’s not that there’s *no* way, but such would involve either rewriting wp_list_pages() to display a home link (so you wouldn’t have to pass it through ‘title_li’), or code a relacement for the tag that accepts parameters in the regular ‘PHP’ style.

I’ve done a little digging and discovered the devs were kind enough to add an ‘echo’ parameter for wp_list_pages() in 1.5.1. With this we can do a little PHP magic to get valid XHTML!

<?php
$pages = wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&exclude=6&title_li=<h2>' . __('Navigate') . '</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.creativeyoungteam.com" title="Home">Home</a></li></ul>&echo=0');
echo stripslashes($pages);
?>

I slipped the quotes back on the anchor attributes, and added &echo=0 at the end of the parameter query to tell wp_list_pages() to return, and not echo (i.e. display) its output. That’s how I’m able to assign wp_list_pages() to the $pages variable. The next line echoes the $pages variable, but first it’s filtered through the stripslashes() function to remove those pesky escapes on the quotes.

Again, this is a 1.5.1 trick only.

it doesn’t work at all, when I use that string of codes it makes everything in my posts and pages disapear besides the first character.

http://niclas.pigne.net/blog

http://niclas.pigne.net/enabled.jpg – this is what the layout look like when I have multiple pages and uses your hack to add a “Home” link at the top.

http://niclas.pigne.net/disabled.jpg – without using multiple pages, this is what it should look like.

I’m using the lates wordpress (1.5.1.2) by the way.