by cornershop 5 (4 reviews)

Better Section Navigation

Name: Better Section Navigation
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
Author: cornershop

Creates a new widget for listing section-based navigation -- essential for contextual navigation. Also implements a template function and a shortcode.

Better Section Navigation ranks #8,300 among WordPress.org plugins with 600+ active installations, is #1,139 of 8,848 in the Customization category, a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews, and was last updated Dec 3, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.9 (Current: 7.1.4)

v1.7.0 Current Version v1.7.0

Updated 11 months ago Last Update on 03 Dec, 2025

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

#1,139 of 8,848 in Customization Top 25% by installs Downloads -14.9% this week

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 3 months ago

Mar 28, 2025

Better Section Navigation [better-section-navigation] < 1.7.0

CVE-2025-31465 · Fixed in v1.7.0

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.7.0
Last Updated: Dec 03, 2025
Requires WP: 2.8+
Tested Up To: 6.9
PHP Version: 5.6 or higher
Author: cornershop

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 4
Support Threads: 0
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who need contextual, section-based page navigation on their sites. It solves the problem of displaying hierarchical navigation of a page's siblings, parents, and children automatically, while allowing specific pages to be excluded from the output.

Section-based navigation widget
Template function support
Shortcode support
Exclude specific pages
Per-page exclude metabox
Custom widget title option
Configurable page sort order
Multisite compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Better Section Navigation

At this time there is no Block nor any plan to create one. Instead, use the shortcode block to embed within a block editor page.

Yes, you may use the [better-section-nav] shortcode. This example will will wrap the widget in LI tags, exclude page ID 2, and will output on home page: [better-section-nav before_widget="<li>" after_widget="</li>" exclude="2" show_on_home="1"]

Yes, you may call the better_section_nav function, which accepts a single argument in the form of a classic WordPress parameter set like so: <?php better_section_nav('before_widget=<li>&after_widget=</li>&exclude=2&show_on_home=1'); ?>

Here’s the complete list: show_all - Always show all pages in current section (default: false) exclude - Page IDs, seperated by commas, of pages to exclude (default: '') hide_on_excluded - No navigation on excluded pages (default: true) show_on_home - Show top level page list on home page (default: false) show_empty - Output even if empty section (default: false) sort_by - Page sort order; can use any WordPress page list sort value (default: menu_order) title - Provide a specific widget title; default is the top level page title (default: '') a_heading - Show all pages in section (default: false) before_widget - HTML before widget (default: <div>) after_widget - HTML after widget (default: </div>) before_title - HTML before widget (default: <h2 class="widgettitle">) after_title - HTML after widget (default: </h2>)