Quickly adjust the order of child pages.
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.
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.
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 areachild_order_before_item ($post) – Action c…| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.9.40 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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