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The default WordPress widget will only let you set the values for sort_column and exclude parameters. Sometimes you need more control over the pages widget as it is not possible to edit the theme template files or use the wp_list_pages template tag in certain circumstances. For example, you might be running a blog on WordPress MU and sharing the same theme with multiple blogs. In such a case, even though you can add the wp_list_pages template tag to the theme files you can’t hard code the child_of parameter or page ids to be included.

This widget plugin lets you set all the parameters that are available in WordPress - child_of, include, exclude, authors, meta_key, meta_value, depth, sort_column, sort_order, show_date, date_format, and hierarchical.

Apart from that this widget automatically fetches a list of all the columns in your blog’s wp_posts table and lets you sort your list using any of these columns.

You can add upto 9 Advanced Page List Widgets.

Compatibility: I have created this plugin using WordPress 2.3.3. If you have successfully installed and used this plugin on any other version of WordPress, do let me know.

Installation: Refer readme.txt