Title: Sidebar Navigation Control
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Sidebar Navigation Control

 *  [matthewjahn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matthewjahn/)
 * (@matthewjahn)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-navigation-control/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m looking to do something seemingly simple with my WP site, but can’t seem 
   to figure it out.
 * My site consists primarily of pages, I use wordpress like a CMS
 * I’d like to have control over the sidebar navigation menu, where I can name the
   link to the page anything I want. Preferably I would be able to bold certain 
   text, like page parents etc.
 * eg my page title is “How to Stop Dog Barking”, but I want it to only read “Stop
   Dog Barking” in the side bar.
 * I’ve searched far and wide for a plugin that will do this. Any suggestions?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-navigation-control/#post-2413605)
 * See [custom menu](http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_SubPanel).
 *  Thread Starter [matthewjahn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matthewjahn/)
 * (@matthewjahn)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-navigation-control/#post-2413612)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, but I don’t think that will do what I want.
 * I want to rename my pages, so they don’t show as the entire title of the page
   in the side navigation menu. Some titles are a bit long winded.
 * You know, something like the permalink option where you can designate the URL
   to whatever you want, so it’s not the exact title of the page.
 * Does that make sense?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-navigation-control/#post-2413647)
 * Yes – that’s why you need to read the page at the link I gave above.
 *  Thread Starter [matthewjahn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matthewjahn/)
 * (@matthewjahn)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-navigation-control/#post-2413686)
 * OK got it. Thanks for the help.
 * Now two things —
 * I’m using a plugin called Nice Navigation that displays an animated collapsing
   page navigation with parent/child pages, but there isn’t the option to designate
   navigation labels for each page.
 * When I create a menu and use that widget, it creates a static menu with all child
   pages showing under the parent page. I’d rather not have this.
 * Is there a way to designate navigation labels for my pages without using the 
   custom menu widget?
 * Also, I’m using the Ultimate Noindex plugin so I have rel=”nofollow” control 
   over my navigation menu. It works fine with the Nice Navigation widget, but not
   with the custom menu widget.
 * Thanks for the help

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 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [matthewjahn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matthewjahn/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-navigation-control/#post-2413686)
 * Status: not resolved

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