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This tiny plugin does 2 things that make WordPress better for page-centric (rather than post-centric) sites.
- Puts a popup menu on a line under the Pages subitem of the Pages menu in Admin to directly edit page (with PHP).
- You just choose the page from the menu and it immediately loads for editing rather than having to go through the intermediary step of listing all the pages.
- Moves the Pages section up above Posts (with Javascript).
This makes it much quicker when you’re jumping between static pages.
The reordering of the items is done with JavaScript (so it shouldn’t break anything else, but you may notice a little jump after the page loads).
Change Log
v0.3.1 (06/02/2012)
- Adds Draft and Private pages to the list.
v0.2 (04/10/2010)
- Wrapped in a class to be slightly tidier and easier to update in the future with more features.
Just tried your plugin, very nice, makes it much faster to edit pages. However, with v0.2 it doesn’t show up the draft pages, and that’s really what I need to edit. Any chance of adding that tweak?
Probably could add that. I’ll get back to you. Thanks for the feedback.
OK, version 0.3.1 includes draft and private pages. I hope that’s helpful. Would it be useful to distinguish them visually? I can’t decide. And would you or others like the option to choose whether draft or private pages are included? A no-config plugin is quite attractive in many ways and it’s easy to edit manually.
Thanks for the update David, this has been a good little time saver for me. I’ve tried a couple of different admin plugins, I like this one because it’s compact, unobtrusive and easily accessible. I like simple and elegant solutions, kudos for you.
A couple of notes on usage:
It was great for when I was actively editing several pages and I new which were draft. After being away from editing and working on other things coming back I didn’t remember which were draft. So I’m promoting the indication of page type and it could be a simple (d) or or d- for draft or p for private in the name, say at the start of the name. Also grouping the drafts (at the top) and private pages would make a lot of since as well.
Looks like the box width changes to accommodate the name as well, I have some long ones, so if the indication was by post having it in front or back should work.
Now that I’m in posts mode, I have several drafts on going, and I’ve been known to develop a few draft templates which I duplicate as a new post then edit. I didn’t find a quick post edit plug in. Do you know of one? I suppose this could be a bit more difficult when the post count gets very high. Maybe a Category grouping would be in order.
Thanks for the great plugin. Keep up the great work.
Just updated the plugin to highlight which are drafts/private pages. I don’t group at the top of the list yet because I like to show the pages in the same order they’ll appear when published. But if grouping would be helpful that could be an option.
I’ve thought about posts too. For most sites it would be crazy to list all posts, but what I can envisage being useful is a list of:
1. All draft posts
2. All pending posts
in a similar way to the current plugin. I may consider that. We’re going to start needing options soon though. Quite possibly I’ll do the posts one as a separate plugin.