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.

robfelty

This is a very simple plugin that uses Javascript to form a collapsable set of 
links in the sidebar for the pages. Every page corresponding to a given 
parent page will be expanded.
It is largely based off of my Collapsing Pages and Collapsing Pages 
plugins.
<h3>What’s new?</h3>
<ul>
<li>
2.0.3 (2024.01.01)
<ul>
<li>Fixed issue with subsubpages not closing correctly</li>
<li>Got rid of some more warnings</li>
<li>Tested with 6.4.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
2.0.2 (2023.12.01)
<ul>
<li>Got rid of some warnings</li>
<li>Updated deprecated property __experimentalGroup</li>
<li>Tested with 6.4.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
2.0.1 (2023.06.16)
<ul>
<li>Bug fixes</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
2.0.0 (2023.03.17)
<ul>
<li>Updated to use Gutenberg block</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
1.0.1 (2016.05.09)
<ul>
<li>Fixed bug where sometimes setting accordion to false broke javascript</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
1.0 (2015.08.12)
<ul>
<li>Compatible with WordPress 4.3</li>
<li>Fixed bug where expanding symbol showed up at lowest depth specified instead 
(thanks to tkibler for pointing it out)</li>
<li>Added option to only display pages of the current subpage</li>
<li>Added option to show top-level page (previously it was always shown)</li>
<li>Added accordion style option</li>
<li>Cleaned up widget settings</li>
<li>improved style management, including the ability to specify style per widget</li>
<li>Switched from unicode symbols to html entities</li>
<li>Not showing tags for title if empty</li>
<li>Fixed bug with title attribute of pages</li>
<li>Totally rewrote javascript</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Options</h3>
If using the manual version, you can pass options either as an array, or using 
the query style, just like for other wordpress functions such as 
 wp_list_pages
<pre><code> $defaults=array(
 'title' => __('Pages', 'collapsing-pages'), 
 'sortOrder'=> 'ASC' ,
 'sort'=> 'pageName' ,
 'defaultExpand'=> '',
 'expand' => 0,
 'depth' =>-1,
 'inExcludePage' => 'exclude',
 'linkToPage' => true,
 'inExcludePages' => '',
 'showPosts' => false,
 'animate' => 0,
 'useCookies' => true,
 'postTitleLength' => 0,
 'showTopLevel' => true,
 'currentPageOnly' => false,
 'debug' => false,
 );
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>inExcludePage
<ul>
<li>Whether to include or exclude certain pages
<ul>
<li>‘exclude’ (default) </li>
<li>‘include’</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>inExcludePages
<ul>
<li>The pages which should be included or excluded</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>showPosts
<ul>
<li>Whether or not to include posts as well as pages. Default if false</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>linkToPage
<ul>
<li>True, clicking on a parent page title will link to that page (default)</li>
<li>False, clicking on a parent page will expand to show sub-pages</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>sort
<ul>
<li>How to sort the pages. Possible values:
<ul>
<li>‘pageName’ the title of the page (default)</li>
<li>‘pageId’ the Id of the page</li>
<li>‘pageSlug’ the url of the page</li>
<li>‘menuOrder’ custom order specified in the pages settings</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>sortOrder
<ul>
<li>Whether pages should be sorted in normal or reverse 
order. Possible values:
<ul>
<li>‘ASC’ normal order (a-z 0-9) (default)</li>
<li>‘DESC’ reverse order (z-a 9-0) </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>expand
<ul>
<li>The symbols to be used to mark expanding and collapsing. Possible values:
<ul>
<li>‘0’ Triangles (default)</li>
<li>‘1’ + –</li>
<li>‘2’ [+] [-]</li>
<li>‘3’ images (you can upload your own if you wish)</li>
<li>‘4’ custom symbols</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>customExpand
<ul>
<li>If you have selected ‘4’ for the expand option, this character will be 
used to mark expandable link categories</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>customCollapse
<ul>
<li>If you have selected ‘4’ for the expand option, this character will be 
used to mark collapsible link categories</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>postTitleLength
<ul>
<li>Truncate post titles to this number of characters (default: 0 = don’t 
truncate)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>animate
<ul>
<li>When set to true, collapsing and expanding will be animated</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>useCookies
<ul>
<li>When true, expanding and collapsing of pages is remembered for each 
visitor. When false, pages are always display collapsed (unless 
explicitly set to auto-expand). Possible values:
<ul>
<li>true (default)</li>
<li>false</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>showTopLevel
<ul>
<li>True – show top level pages (default)</li>
<li>False – only display sub-pages and below</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>currentPageOnly
<ul>
<li>True – show only parent and sub pages of the current page</li>
<li>False – show all pages (subject to the include or exclude parameters 
set) (default)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>debug
<ul>
<li>When set to true, extra debugging information will be displayed in the 
underlying code of your page (but not visible from the browser). Use 
this option if you are having problems</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<pre><code>collapsPage('animate=true&sort=ASC&expand=3,inExcludePages=about')
</code></pre>
This will produce a list with: 
* animation on 
* shown in alphabetical order 
* using images to mark collapsing and expanding 
* exclude page about
<h3>Demo</h3>
I use this plugin in my blog at http://blog.robfelty.com
<h3>CAVEAT</h3>
Currently this plugin relies on Javascript to expand and collapse the links. 
If a user’s browser doesn’t support javascript they won’t see the links to the 
posts, but the links to the pages will still work (which is the default 
behavior in wordpress anyways)

Collapsing Pages

This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapsable the set of pages for each parent page.

Admin Posts Navigation vs Collapsing Pages