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Pages Children

[Plugin Homepage](http://www.codehooligans.com/projects/wordpress/pages-children/ "Pages-Children Plugin for WordPress")

By Paul Menard·Edit·Free
5(7 reviews)
·200 active installs·Updated 11 years ago
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As of April 2026, Pages Children is a WordPress edit plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Forget About Shortcode Buttons.

5/57 reviews
200active installs
13K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011

Overview

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 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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Ratings & Reviews

57 reviews
5 ★
7
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1 ★
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Compatibility

WordPress3.7+ requiredTested up to 3.9.40
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.5.2.2

  • 2014-04-22:
  • Corrected small error for undefined var. Thanks Dharmaraj.
  • Test for WordPress 3.9
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Paul MenardPaul Menard
Plugin Info
Version
1.5.2.2
Last Updated
Apr 22, 2014
WP Requires
3.7+
Tested Up To
3.9.40
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
200
Downloads
13K+
Added
Jan 14, 2011
Business
Free

Tags

editpagespost typestaxonomiespage management

Developer

P
Paul Menard
4 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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