wlindley

Two widgets are provided, for displaying a vastly condensed 
hierarchial list either of pages, or of categories and custom 
taxonomies. Designed for large sites with hundreds of pages, or when 
using custom post types or custom hierarchical taxonomies.
With Pages: Always displays the current page, the pages above it back 
to the home page, and the current page’s children. Detects nested 
categories and custom taxonomies, and likewise displays the categories 
or taxonomies above and below the currently displayed one.
The behavior of the widget is all configurable through its 
configuration screen, as follows:
<ul>
<li>The Categories widget will also display custom taxonomies. 
The admin screen includes a list of the defined ones; 
leave the field blank to use the built-in post categories.</li>
<li>The title is optional (blank will emit no heading); with 
a blank heading and top-level entries (pages/categories/ 
taxonomies) disabled, you can have the widget only display 
when the user is “currently inside” a page/post that matches 
what the widget is set to display.</li>
<li>Pages may be sorted in Menu Order or alphabetically. 
To sort pages in menu order, with pages of the same order 
alphabetical, set the Sort Field parameter to: 
menu_order,post_title … some sites have reported issues 
and seem to require that only menu_order be specified.</li>
<li>Categories and custom taxonomies may be sorted by name, 
slug, or other fields displayed on the admin form.</li>
<li>Sort order can be ASC or DESC</li>
<li>Siblings to the current page, if enabled, means that child 
pages of the current page’s parent will be displayed. 
Disabling this makes for shorter page lists but the user 
might not be able to move “sideways” in the site.</li>
<li>If there are many top-level pages (pages with no Parent set), 
you can disable their listing.</li>
<li>If your site has an Introduction or splash page, as a static home 
page, you might want to disable showing it (presumably it is 
accessible through an icon link). However, if the homepage has 
children, it will always be displayed (otherwise you could never 
navigate to those pages).</li>
<li>For Pages, you may optionally specify a meta-key and value 
which must be matched for pages to be listed in the widget.</li>
<li>Also for Pages, you may select posts that match a given 
Author or post status. Leave these blank for “all authors” 
and “publish” status.</li>
<li>Empty categories/taxonomies may be hidden.</li>
<li>Both plugins permit specifying either an include list or 
an exclude list. These are comma-delimited lists of 
ID numbers. You may specify either include or exclude, not both.</li>
</ul>
Spanish translation provided courtesy Andrew Kurtis of WebHostingHub.com 
Thanks, Andrew!

Hierarchical Pages Widget

Two widgets are provided, for displaying a vastly condensed

Sean Barton

This plugin lets you turn WordPress into a proper easily navigable CMS. Having a site made up mostly of pages in the form of a tree (an information site for example) was always a pain until I wrote this to help me out. I have had lots of feedback about it over the last few months and more and more people are finding ways they can use it to improve the navigation and usability of their sites
I wanted to show some sort of hierarchy in the pages inside WordPress. I decided to call one of my pages “articles” and have my articles use it as their parent.
Logically you would expect to see a list of the child pages on the articles page along with a pretty picture and some intro text. This doesn’t seem possible natively with WordPress so I decided to make it happen.
Adding the hook [sb_child_list] to any post or page will by default show an unordered list showing the children and links to them. If you prefer to style it yourself then don’t worry because you can do that too using the templating system on the settings page.
There is also add another tag, [sb_parent], that allows you to provide a back to parent link from any child. This enables you (in the articles example) to add a “click here to read more on this subject” link. It is also template based so it can say anything or look however you see fit
You can also use this shortcode: [sb_cat_list category=CatName] which does what it says on the tin, simply give it a category name and it will show the posts in that category for you with optional ‘limit’ argument
The plugin creates a widget for use also. This works if there is a sub page present. Much like a sub pages widget or similar.
I have added a shortcode for sibling navigation. You can use [sb_sibling_next] and [sb_sibling_prev] to show links to next and previous pages ordered by menu order followed by post title order. Handy indeed! You can use the argument orderby to select a field and order to choose ASC or DESC.
There is a simple templating system to allow multiple templates for [sb_child_list] and [sb_cat_list] with the argument ‘template’ ([sb_child_list template=”2″]). Also added excerpt support and support for the SB Uploader Plugin custom fields (custom field called post_image will show if necessary).
To round it all up.. Shortcode listings:
[sb_child_list] <– Arguments allowed are: ‘template’, ‘nest_level’, ‘orderby’ and ‘order’ (order and orderby allow the arguments specified in this list: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters) 
[sb_parent] 
[sb_grandparent] 
[sb_cat_list] 
[sb_sibling_next] 
[sb_sibling_prev]

SB Child List

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Hierarchical Pages Widget vs SB Child List