mbrinson

Admin Posts Navigation solves a common WordPress admin workflow problem: having to go back to the post list every time you want to edit the next or previous post.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Seamless Navigation: Navigate directly between posts without returning to the post list</li>
<li>Customizable Sorting: Choose between Date Published, Alphabetical, or Post ID sorting</li>
<li>User Preferences: Each user’s sort preferences are saved per post type</li>
<li>Universal Support: Works with posts, pages, and all custom post types automatically</li>
<li>Dual Editor Support: Full compatibility with both Classic Editor and Gutenberg Block Editor</li>
<li>Smart Ordering: Uses appropriate default ordering (date for posts, alphabetical for pages)</li>
<li>Position Tracking: Shows your current position (e.g., “Position: 3 of 15 posts”)</li>
<li>Security First: Rate limiting, nonce verification, and capability checks</li>
<li>Performance Optimized: Intelligent caching and optimized database queries</li>
<li>Developer Friendly: Multiple filter hooks for customization</li>
</ul>
How It Works:
In the Classic Editor, navigation buttons appear below the post title with a sorting dropdown that lets you choose between Date Published, Alphabetical, or Post ID ordering.
In Gutenberg, a “Post Navigation” panel appears in the Document Settings sidebar with Previous/Next buttons and a sorting dropdown for customizing the navigation order.
Sorting Options:
<ul>
<li>Date Published: Navigate by publication date (newest first for posts, oldest first for pages)</li>
<li>Alphabetical: Navigate by post title in alphabetical order (A-Z)</li>
<li>Post ID: Navigate by WordPress post ID in ascending order</li>
</ul>
Each user’s sorting preference is remembered per post type, so you can have different sorting for posts vs. pages vs. custom post types.
Perfect For:
<ul>
<li>Content managers editing multiple posts in sequence</li>
<li>Bloggers reviewing and updating existing content</li>
<li>Developers working with custom post types</li>
<li>Anyone who finds the default WordPress admin workflow tedious</li>
</ul>
The plugin automatically detects all your custom post types and provides navigation for any content type you can edit.
<h3>Developer Hooks</h3>
Filters:
<ul>
<li><code>twf_admin_posts_navigation_excluded_types</code> – Exclude specific post types from navigation</li>
<li><code>twf_admin_posts_navigation_orderby</code> – Customize ordering for specific post types </li>
<li><code>twf_admin_posts_navigation_order</code> – Customize sort direction for specific post types</li>
<li><code>twf_admin_posts_navigation_query_args</code> – Modify the query arguments for finding posts</li>
</ul>
Example Usage:
<pre><code>`php
</code></pre>
// Exclude a custom post type 
add_filter(‘twf_admin_posts_navigation_excluded_types’, function($excluded) { 
 $excluded[] = ‘my_private_post_type’; 
 return $excluded; 
});
// Custom ordering for events 
add_filter(‘twf_admin_posts_navigation_orderby’, function($orderby, $post_type) { 
 if ($post_type === ‘event’) { 
 return ‘meta_value’; 
 } 
 return $orderby; 
}, 10, 2);
// Navigate only through featured posts 
add_filter(‘twf_admin_posts_navigation_query_args’, function($args, $current_post) { 
 if ($current_post->post_type === ‘post’) { 
 $args[‘meta_query’] = array( 
 array( 
 ‘key’ => ‘featured_post’, 
 ‘value’ => ‘1’, 
 ‘compare’ => ‘=’ 
 ) 
 ); 
 } 
 return $args; 
}, 10, 2); 
 `

Admin Posts Navigation

Navigate between posts and pages without returning to the post list. Works with Classic Editor, Gutenberg, and all Custom Post Types.

Diana van de Laarschot

jamocreations

The default custom menu in WordPress only allows checking the “Automatically add new top-level pages” (Appearance > Menus) or adding a Navigation block with all pages and all child pages (Appearance > Editor).
With Auto Submenu you get extra functionality to automatically include child pages into the menu.
NEW: ASM now provides support for the Customizer via Appearance > Customize 
NEW: ASM now provides support for Full Site Editing with the Gutenberg Block Editor via Appearance > Editor
<h3>Using it</h3>
Enable the plugin and go to Appearance > Editor.
For each Page in your menu, you now have the following extra configuration options:
<ul>
<li>Add child pages as submenu y/n; </li>
<li>child pages are ordered ascending by Menu Order;</li>
<li>specify the (maximum) nesting depth of children you want to show (max 3);</li>
<li>specify the title for the child pages. For this you can use %post_title, %post_author and other wildcards, see ‘Other Notes > Wildcards’. Default value: %post_title</li>
</ul>
Via Appearance > Menus and Appearance > Customize you also get the following option:
<ul>
<li>Check the “Automatically add new top-level and all its child pages to this menu (Auto Submenu)”-checkbox.</li>
<li>If this option is checked, all top-level pages will automatically be added and will automatically have all child pages added as submenu.</li>
</ul>
With the Free version you cannot control the nesting depth of the child pages, all subpages are added, regardless the depth of the page tree.
<h4>Wildcards</h4>
You can control the title of the menu items generated by the plug-in with the following wildcards:
<ul>
<li>%post_title</li>
<li>%post_author</li>
<li>%post_date for the unformatted post date: 2012-11-10 18:14:23</li>
<li>%post_date() for a formatted post date with the following default formatting: November 10th, 2012</li>
<li>%post_date(<your formatting here>) for custom date formatting. Example: %post_date(l jS \of F Y, h:i:s A). See <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time" rel="nofollow ugc">https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time</a> for formatting options.</li>
<li>%post_date_gmt</li>
<li>%post_date_gmt()</li>
<li>%post_date_gmt(<your formatting here>)</li>
</ul>

Auto Submenu

Good, saved me from a lot of work. Bookmarked



Perfect!

Dynamic menus: Add a page to your menu and then let WordPress automatically add the child pages.

Admin Posts Navigation vs Auto Submenu