Alt Link Text can be used to modify the link text and title attributes of links in page lists, and to remove pages from page lists completely. By default, links in page lists generated using wp_list_pages use the page title as both the link text and the title attribute. This plugin adds “Alternative Link Text” and “Alternative Title Attribute” fields to the Write Page and Manage Page screens which can be used to specify alternative link text and title attributes. It also adds a checkbox that can be unchecked to remove a page from these lists.
This can be useful if your page titles are too long for your navigation menu (e.g. “Terms & Conditions” could be abbreviated to “T&C” to save space), or if you just want them to be different (e.g. you might want your home page to have “Welcome” as its title but to be linked to as “Home” in your navigation menu).
Alt Link Text has now evolved into <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-lists-plus/" rel="ugc">Page Lists Plus</a>.

Alt-Link-Text

Alt Link Text can be used to modify the link text and title attributes of links in page lists, and to remove pages from page lists completely.

Page Lists Plus adds customisation options to the wp_list_pages function used to create Page menus, all controlled through the dashboard.
By default, links in Page lists use the Page’s title as both the link text and the title attribute. Page Lists Plus allows you to specify alternative link text and title attributes to be used instead.
Page Lists Plus also allows you remove items from Page lists or just unlink them, and to add rel=”nofollow” or target=”_blank” to links, or redirect them to a different url.
You can also use Page Lists Plus to add a “Home” link at the start of your Page lists and/or a “Contact” link at the end, and to add class=”first_item” to the first item in a Page list or span tags inside all items in a Page list to help with styling.

Page Lists Plus

Adds customisation options to the wp_list_pages function used to create Page menus, all controlled through the WordPress dashboard.

Alt-Link-Text vs Page Lists Plus