[Plugin: Anchors Menu] Using page title in widget menu title

Just in case anyone else wanted to do this, here is what I did…

First, I don’t like editing the code of a plugin due to automatic upgrades – sometimes I forget whether I’ve hacked a plugin or not. So, I copied all of the plugin code to my functions.php file and deactivated the actual plugin. But before doing so, I added these three lines just before line 140:

echo "<h3>";
		if (is_page()) { the_title(); }
		else if (is_category()) { single_cat_title(); }
		else if (is_tag()) { single_tag_title(); }
		else { echo "Menu"; }
		echo "</h3>";

Then, instead of bothering with the widgets, I just added this line of code to my sidebar.php file where I wanted it:

anc_insert();

Of course, this works well for my theme and situation. Thanks to the plugin author for providing some very useful code! In the next release, the developer might want to consider putting a chekbox in the widget settings allowing us to choose to use the page/post/category title, etc. 🙂