Web-Engine Graph
Web-Engine Graph draws your site’s content as a graph. Each record is a node, and the lines between them are the connections WordPress already holds: Posts, pages and your site’s own custom post types (published content only) Categories, tags and other public taxonomies, joined to the content that u
Web-Engine Graph draws your site’s content as a graph. Each record is a node, and the lines between them are the connections WordPress already holds:
- Posts, pages and your site’s own custom post types (published content only)
- Categories, tags and other public taxonomies, joined to the content that uses them
- Users, joined to the content they wrote and to their roles
- Navigation menus and their items, joined to the pages, posts and terms they link to
- Parent and child pages, and the same for any hierarchical post type
The graph opens on a new admin page, Graph, and is built from your own database each time the page is opened.
Filters. A stack of filters decides what is on screen. Each filter adds one record type to the graph, and can include or exclude records you pick. Turn on Related and a filter shows only the records of its type that connect to the records shown by the filters with Related off, such as the users who wrote a chosen set of posts. With no filters, everything is shown.
Layouts. The same records can be arranged in six ways:
- Manual: you place every record, and nothing moves unless you move it
- Series: the records of one type along a line, in date or alphabetical order, with related records in rows above and below
- Tree: records with parents and children, each parent above its children
- Grouped: one cluster per record type
- Hubs: each record of one type at the centre of the records that connect to it
- Columns: one column per filter, sorted to shorten the lines between neighbouring columns
Who can use it. The Graph page is open to Editors and Administrators (any user who can edit other people’s posts). Connecting the site to the cloud needs an Administrator.
Saving. You can explore, filter and arrange the graph without an account, and every feature works without saving. To save a graph and reopen it later, an Administrator connects the site to a Web-Engine cloud account. Connecting is optional and registration is free. Registering includes agreeing that saved graphs may appear in the cloud’s public gallery, as set out on the registration page. Saved graphs belong to the site rather than to one WordPress user.
