Simple Sidebar Navigation
Easy way to create custom navigation in sidebars or other pre-defined areas. Conditional tags are included to specify pages where widgets appear.
The facts
- Rating
- 3★ from 2
- Active installs
- 200+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 2 Sep 2018
- Added
- Dec 2008
- Requires WP
- 2.8
- Tested up to
- WP 4.9.31
- Downloads
- 66,214
Our analysis
AI-assistedSimple Sidebar Navigation is a WordPress plugin that enables you to create custom navigation menus in your site's sidebars without needing to write PHP code. It adds a widget to the Widgets dashboard, allowing for both flat and multi-level navigation hierarchies for existing pages and custom links.
The plugin offers flexible conditional appearance options and supports custom drop-down menu CSS. It is suitable for users who want to enhance their site's navigation without technical expertise.
Best for: This plugin is best for WordPress users looking to improve sidebar navigation easily.
What it does well
- ✓Allows creation of custom navigation without PHP coding
- ✓Supports flat and multi-level navigation hierarchies
- ✓Flexible conditional appearance options
- ✓Includes support for custom drop-down menus CSS
- ✓Can add unlimited navigation widgets
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in September 2018
- •Rated 3 out of 5 from 2 ratings
- •Directory score of 46/100 indicates potential issues
Verdict
Simple Sidebar Navigation provides a straightforward way to enhance sidebar menus, but its age and rating may raise concerns for some users.
From the developer
Max Chirkov's own description of Simple Sidebar Navigation, lightly tidied.
This plugin adds a widget into the Widgets dashboard that allows in a simple way, without writing any PHP code on your part, to create custom navigation in any sidebar pre-defined by your WP theme.
Features Include:
- Flat and multi-level navigation hierarchy for existing pages and custom links.
- Very flexible conditional appearance options (greatly expanded from before 2.0 version).
- Out-of-the-box Suckerfish support.
- Option to add navigation links with custom title, url and target attribute.
- Unlimited number of navigation widgets.
- Optional setting includes blog posts into the navigation selection list (only pages are available by default).
- Support for custom drop-down menus CSS.
Recent Updates Log:
- 2.3.0 – Fixes deprecated class constructor.
- 2.2.0 – WP 3.8 Compatibility Update.
- 2.1.5 – Added compatibility with Advanced Text Widget PRO.
- 2.1.4 – Minor update with IE6 JS fix.
- 2.1.0 – WordPress 2.8 Compatible and newer versions ONLY.
- 2.0.10 – Fixed active links bug.
- 2.0.9 – Fixed array unserialization, which was being broken by non-US characters (i.e. German umlauts).
- 2.0.8 – There is a floating bug between serializing from JS into PHP and back – hopefully it’s fixed now.
- 2.0.7 – Fixed get_posts() 5 post limit; Added ON/OFF target attribute option to the Settings so it can be compliant with XHTML 1.0 Strict;
- 2.0.6 – Fixed an error when parsing serialized array:
Warning: array_key_exists(): on line 149. - 2.0.5 – Custom links with hyphens bug fixed.
- 2.0.4 – Removed unconditional suckerfish_e.js declaration.
- 2.0.3 – Changed navigation links to permalinks.
- 2.0.2 – Fixed links with apostrophes bug. (Link titles that had apostrophe in them weren’t saving.)
Conditional widget appearance is based on Daikos’ Text Widget by Rune Fjellheim.
- Author: Max Chirkov
- Author URI: http://SimpleRealtyTheme.com
- Copyright: Released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Video Demo
Check out this quick video demonstration.