Ordering Links By Custom Titles Both category and page menu support setting a custom title for links in the menus. A custom title allows you to customize the display in the menus wherever the category or page is displayed. This has always worked fine when using an order by like "Page Order" or "Created" but could have unexpected results when ordering by "Page Order" or "Name." Ordering has always been handled within the WordPress queries using database table columns. Using this default way … [Read more...]

New Order Option for Page Menus From the beginning, you have been able to order the pages displayed in menus using various fields like titles or page order. Now you may also choose to order pages by ascending or descending order. Ordering by descending was previously available using a filter, but now you can select the order in the Pages block or widget. The filter still works, just not needed anymore. Usage is pretty straight forward, but we added documentation anyway. Continued … [Read more...]

Block Registration Size Reduction: Phase 1 The Gutenberg block system required you to register information for blocks on both the PHP and JavaScript side for attributes and other items to work correctly. The common way to solve this requirement is to use a block.json file to hold all registration information then parse this block.json file in both PHP and JS when the editor loads. Despite the obvious performance issues with parsing JSON on every request, we fundamentally avoid this … [Read more...]

Version 9.8 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. This version brings enhancements to the block style section interactions. Saving of Open State When working with block styles, it is common to work with particular style sections while rarely changing others. Back in version 9.7, we added support for collapsing style sections to provide a tighter focus on the styles being changed. Now with version 9.8, closing a section will persist the … [Read more...]

Version 9.7 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. This version focused on expanding the styling options for full compatibility with block based themes as well as modern styling units. Menu Styles Now One Column The nice thing about blocks is they are universal and may be used in various areas of the WordPress admin. Namely used in. The tricky part is the block settings and toolbar options may appear in a different layout depending on the … [Read more...]

Version 9.6 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. Version 9.6 focused on phase 2 of bringing code modernization and flexibility between the PRO and basic versions of the plugin. There is a lot of "nerd" information in this article. Phase 2 of Code Modernization Back in our last minor 9.5 version we completed phase 1 which laid the groundwork for phase 2. Now that the dust has settled on 9.5 and over 90% of our users are on 9.5 or newer, … [Read more...]