diff --git a/apps/navigation/templatetags/navigation_tags.py b/apps/navigation/templatetags/navigation_tags.py
index 99fecf5f98..1bd8b65111 100644
--- a/apps/navigation/templatetags/navigation_tags.py
+++ b/apps/navigation/templatetags/navigation_tags.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import copy
 import re
 
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse, NoReverseMatch
-from django.core.urlresolvers import RegexURLResolver, RegexURLPattern, Resolver404, get_resolver
 from django.template import TemplateSyntaxError, Library, \
                             VariableDoesNotExist, Node, Variable
 from django.utils.text import unescape_string_literal
@@ -11,6 +10,7 @@ from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
 from navigation.api import object_navigation, multi_object_navigation, \
     menu_links as menu_navigation
 from navigation.forms import MultiItemForm
+from navigation.utils import resolve_to_name
 
 register = Library()
 
@@ -71,54 +71,6 @@ def main_navigation(parser, token):
     return NavigationNode(navigation=menu_navigation)
 
 
-#http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1378/
-__all__ = ('resolve_to_name',)
-
-
-def _pattern_resolve_to_name(self, path):
-    match = self.regex.search(path)
-    if match:
-        name = ""
-        if self.name:
-            name = self.name
-        elif hasattr(self, '_callback_str'):
-            name = self._callback_str
-        else:
-            name = "%s.%s" % (self.callback.__module__, self.callback.func_name)
-        return name
-
-
-def _resolver_resolve_to_name(self, path):
-    tried = []
-    match = self.regex.search(path)
-    if match:
-        new_path = path[match.end():]
-        for pattern in self.url_patterns:
-            try:
-                name = pattern.resolve_to_name(new_path)
-            except Resolver404, e:
-                tried.extend([(pattern.regex.pattern + '   ' + t) for t in e.args[0]['tried']])
-            else:
-                if name:
-                    return name
-                tried.append(pattern.regex.pattern)
-        raise Resolver404, {'tried': tried, 'path': new_path}
-
-
-# here goes monkeypatching
-RegexURLPattern.resolve_to_name = _pattern_resolve_to_name
-RegexURLResolver.resolve_to_name = _resolver_resolve_to_name
-
-
-def resolve_to_name(path, urlconf=None):
-    return get_resolver(urlconf).resolve_to_name(path)
-
-
-@register.filter
-def resolve_url_name(value):
-    return resolve_to_name(value)
-
-
 def resolve_arguments(context, src_args):
     args = []
     kwargs = {}
diff --git a/apps/navigation/utils.py b/apps/navigation/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6c008e5576
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/navigation/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1378/
+
+from django.core.urlresolvers import RegexURLResolver, RegexURLPattern, Resolver404, get_resolver
+
+
+__all__ = ('resolve_to_name',)
+
+
+def _pattern_resolve_to_name(self, path):
+    match = self.regex.search(path)
+    if match:
+        name = ""
+        if self.name:
+            name = self.name
+        elif hasattr(self, '_callback_str'):
+            name = self._callback_str
+        else:
+            name = "%s.%s" % (self.callback.__module__, self.callback.func_name)
+        return name
+
+
+def _resolver_resolve_to_name(self, path):
+    tried = []
+    match = self.regex.search(path)
+    if match:
+        new_path = path[match.end():]
+        for pattern in self.url_patterns:
+            try:
+                name = pattern.resolve_to_name(new_path)
+            except Resolver404, e:
+                tried.extend([(pattern.regex.pattern + '   ' + t) for t in e.args[0]['tried']])
+            else:
+                if name:
+                    return name
+                tried.append(pattern.regex.pattern)
+        raise Resolver404, {'tried': tried, 'path': new_path}
+
+
+# here goes monkeypatching
+RegexURLPattern.resolve_to_name = _pattern_resolve_to_name
+RegexURLResolver.resolve_to_name = _resolver_resolve_to_name
+
+
+def resolve_to_name(path, urlconf=None):
+    return get_resolver(urlconf).resolve_to_name(path)