Pages Children
Plugin Homepage The Pages-Children plugin now works with any post or taxonomy type which is setup as hierarchical. Personally I find the WordPress Pages management somewhat lacking. When dealing with a simple list of About Us, Contact Us, etc. pages the interface works fairly well. But when you have
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The Pages-Children plugin now works with any post or taxonomy type which is setup as hierarchical.
Personally I find the WordPress Pages management somewhat lacking. When dealing with a simple list of About Us, Contact Us, etc. pages the interface works fairly well. But when you have a client who has 15+ levels of sub-pages and each level contains some 50+ pages the interface quickly breaks down in it’s usefulness.
So I put together a plugin to help manage this a little better. The new plugin, pages-children, helps to filter the post type or taxonomy list showing only a single level of at a time. That is it really. There is no admin interface or settings. Just through the power of the WordPress actions and filter the page content can be altered. Powerful stuff.
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Getting started.
- 01Upload the extracted plugin folder and contained files to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- 02Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- 03Navigate to any Pages admin screen. The default is to list only top-level pages. Look for the link appended to the page title in column 1 to access lower level pages
Frequently asked questions.
Does the plugin change or modify any WordPress core file?
NO! This is the first rule of plugin development. Never ever change or touch core files, settings or database schema.
I didn’t like the plugin so I deactivated it. But my Pages listing is still messed up
Not possible. Double check that you deactivated the ‘pages-children’ plugin. When active the plugin uses filters to alter the way the page listing is displayed. So once deactivated these filters are no longer used. See first question about changes to core WP code.
Does the plugin work on other post types?
YES. As of version 1.4 the plugin now works with any custom post type which is setup as hierarchical.
Does the plugin work on Taxonomies?
YES. This was added in version 1.5. now taxonomies defined as hierarchical will be presented similar to post types, one level at a time.