Posted: May 28th, 2010    By: Devin Walker   

WordPress makes it very easy to dynamically create menus from pages and categories with the use of the function wp_list_pages() and wp_list_cats()... but what if you want to have separators in your menus? Here's a bit of code that will do just that:

wp_list_pages Separators

$args = array(
  'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
  'title_li' => '',
  'depth' => '1',
  'echo' => 0
);
$separator = ' | ';
$pattern = '/(<\\/a>).*?(<\\/li>).*?(<li)/is';
$replace = '</a>' . $separator . '</li><li';
$subnav = preg_replace($pattern,$replace,wp_list_pages($args));
echo $subnav;

Please note: I got this code from Rares Comes (very nice lavalamp menu there)

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  • Matt Slocum

    preg_replace is expensive. The better way is looping through get_pages() instead. You can then format it any way you want.

  • Matt Slocum

    $pages = get_pages( array(‘parent’ => 0, ‘sort_column’ => ‘menu_order, post_title’) );
    for ($x = 0; $x < count($pages); $x++) {
        if ($x != 0)
            echo " | ";
        echo "ID) .”‘>”. $pages[$x]->post_title .”“;
    }