Marcus Downing

Dani Llewellyn

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 <code>menu_order</code> 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.
<h3>Developers</h3>
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:
<ul>
<li><code>child_order_before_list</code> – Action called before writing the list of child pages in the admin area</li>
<li><code>child_order_before_item ($post)</code> – Action called at the start of each item</li>
<li><code>child_order_after_item ($post)</code> – Action called at the end of each item</li>
<li><code>child_order_after_list</code> – Action called after writing the whole list</li>
<li><code>child_order_item_title ($title, $post)</code> – Filter to control the title displayed for an item</li>
<li><code>child_order_message ($message)</code> – Filter to control the message displayed after the list</li>
</ul>
When saving (in AJAX):
<ul>
<li><code>child_order_children ($array, $parent_id)</code> – Filter to adjust the list of post IDs before saving</li>
<li><code>child_order_before_save ($array, $parent_id)</code> – Action called before saving the order of items</li>
<li><code>child_order_save_item ($id, $menu_order)</code> – Action called on saving each item</li>
<li><code>child_order_after_save ($array, $parent_id)</code> – Action called after saving the order of items</li>
</ul>
If you wish to remove the “Edit” and “View” buttons from the output, call this on setup:
<pre><code>remove_action('child_order_after_item', 'child_order_after_item_edit_link');
</code></pre>
Be aware that the internal workings of the plugin are subject to change, 
so the names and details of these hooks may change in future version.

Child Order

Scott Reilly

This plugin prevents WordPress from allowing and handling any search requests from the front-end of the site. Specifically, this plugin:
<ul>
<li>Prevents the search form from appearing if the theme uses the standard <code>get_search_form()</code> function to display the search form.</li>
<li>Prevents the search form from appearing if the theme uses a <code>searchform.php</code> template</li>
<li>Prevents the search item from appearing in the admin tool bar when shown on the front-end.</li>
<li>Disables the search widget.
<ul>
<li>Removes the Search widget from the list of available widgets</li>
<li>Deactivates any search widgets currently in use in any sidebars (they are hidden, not deleted; they’ll reappear in their original locations if this plugin gets deactivated)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Disables the search block.
<ul>
<li>Removes the Search block from the list of available blocks</li>
<li>Deactivates any search blocks currently in use, such as in posts or as a widget (they are disabled, not deleted; they’ll reappear if this plugin gets deactivated and the associated placeholder block doesn’t get deleted)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>With or without a search form, the plugin prevents any direct or manual requests by visitors, via either GET or POST requests, from actually returning any search results.</li>
<li>Submitted attempts at a search will be given a 404 File Not Found response, rendered by your site’s 404.php template, if present.</li>
<li>Disables output of <code>SearchAction</code> in SEO schema by the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/" rel="ugc">Yoast SEO</a> plugin.</li>
</ul>
The plugin only affects search on the front-end of the site. It does not disable searching in the admin section of the site.
Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/disable-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-search/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/disable-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="https://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a>

Disable Search


In 2024, numerous bots are crawling sites, generating significant search spam. Generally, site search incurs high costs, primarily because we end up paying for CPU resources consumed by spam.



If site search is not crucial for your website, I recommend activating this plugin.



Thank you, Scott, for maintaining this simple yet effective plugin!


The most effective way to avoid search spam

Disable the built-in front-end search capabilities of WordPress.

Child Order vs Disable Search