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Child Order

Quickly adjust the order of child pages.

By Marcus Downing·Search·Free
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·10 active installs·Updated 11 years ago
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As of April 2026, Child Order is a WordPress search plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: String locator.

0/5Rating
10active installs
1.6K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

Adds an admin panel when editing edit pages, to let you rearrange this page’s child pages and switch their display on/off.

This will only affect parts of your theme that display a list of links to child pages, and only those which respect the menu_order setting. It has no effect on Menus. You need to edit those with the existing menu interface.

Actually displaying the list of child pages is outside the scope of this plugin – there are plenty of themes and plugins that do that.

Developers

For developers, there are a lot of hooks exposed by this plugin, which you can use to add fields and behaviours

When displaying the meta box:

  • child_order_before_list – Action called before writing the list of child pages in the admin area
  • child_order_before_item ($post) – Action c…
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

00 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.9.40
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.1

  • Updates to improve apprearance with WordPress 3.8+
  • Fixed to work on multisite
  • Added more hooks for other plugins
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Dani LlewellynDani LlewellynMarcus DowningMarcus Downing
Plugin Info
Version
1.1
Last Updated
May 16, 2014
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
3.9.40
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10
Downloads
1.6K+
Added
May 16, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

search

Developer

M
Marcus Downing
12 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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