Steve Taylor

<p>NOTE: This plugin is not tested with Gutenberg, and we have no near-term plans to do so. If using WP > 5.0, use the Classic Editor if there are problems.</p>
<p>NOTE: This plugin was originally designed to only lock pages, and only later added custom post type functionality. Hence the name, and sometimes the terminology will say “pages” when it means “any post type”.</p>
<p>Sometimes some pages or other posts are too important to allow them to be casually moved about or deleted by site editors. An editor may think nothing of renaming a page’s slug, or deleting a page to replace it with something similar, perhaps unaware of effects on SEO. Also, certain pages might be essential to keep in place because of a site’s structure, or because of aspects of a custom theme.</p>
<p>This plugin lets administrators “lock” any or all pages, and any post of any post type. “Locking” here basically means preventing non-admins from:</p>
<ul>
<li>Editing the item’s slug</li>
<li>Changing the item’s parent</li>
<li>Changing the item’s template</li>
<li>Deleting the item</li>
<li>Changing the item’s status</li>
<li>Changing the item’s password protection</li>
</ul>
<p>Locking is implemented by preventing the actual database update being performed as well as, where possible, having the interface element for that field removed. Where possible interface elements are removed via WP filters on the server; otherwise, jQuery is used on the client.</p>
<p>NOTE: Currently, I’ve been unable to get this working with the Quick Edit functionality. As a stop-gap measure, which is only in place because it seems to be better than nothing, the Quick Edit link is removed for users who can’t edit locked pages. I know, it’s not great. But until I work out how to selectively block Quick Editing, I’m assuming a locked page should be locked. Users can always edit the other fields via the normal edit page.</p>
<p>Go to GitHub for <a href="https://github.com/gyrus/Lock-Pages" rel="nofollow ugc">development code</a> and <a href="https://github.com/gyrus/Lock-Pages/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issue tracking</a>.</p>
<h3>Known issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>Quick Edit presents problems. I’ve worked out how to create hidden fields in the Quick Edit box, and to put the values in the hidden div, but I can’t work out how to dynamically populate the fields with the values, so the old values can be used if necessary on saving. For now Quick Edit is blocked for users who can’t edit locked pages.</li>
<li>Although I’ve fixed the lock_parent function so it allows uploaded files to be attached to a locked page, it still prevents media already in the library from being attached when inserted.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Ideas</h3>
<ul>
<li>Include the locking checkbox for admins in the Quick Edit form.</li>
<li>On the settings screen, use a drop-down for selecting which capability is needed for editing locked page elements.</li>
<li>Implement a system to deal with descendants, e.g. an option to lock all descendants of a locked page or not.</li>
</ul>


Lock Pages

Lock Pages prevents specified pages (or all pages), posts, or custom post types from having their slug, parent, status or password edited, or from bei …

Ciprian Popescu

Pär Thernström

<p>The <strong>Admin Menu Tree Page View</strong> plugin adds a tree-view layout to all your pages – directly accessible in the admin menu. This way, all your content will be available with just one click, no matter where you are in the admin area.</p>
<p>You can also add posts, pages and custom post types directly in the tree and you can quickly find your pages by using the real-time search box.</p>
<p><a href="https://getbutterfly.com/wordpress-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">Homepage</a></p>
<h4>Top features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Change the order of your pages with drag-and-drop</li>
<li>View all your pages – no matter where in the admin you are</li>
<li>View the hierarchy (parent/child relationship) of your pages</li>
<li>Add pages directly after or inside another post – no need to first create the post and then select the parent</li>
<li>Adds link to view a public post type directly from the admin menu – no need to first edit the post and then click the view link</li>
</ul>
<p>Works perfectly in WordPress installations with lots of pages in a tree hierarchy.</p>


Admin Menu Tree Page View


The screenshots for this plugin show that you can access the tree of pages by going to a special page in the admin menu. But that is not what happens. Instead, this plugin adds a full list of all pages to the admin menu itself, under Pages. It's too long, it's a mess, and I can't use it. I thought this would be a good replacement for the still-working-but-apparently-abandoned CMS Tree Page View, but it is not. I'll be going back to that plugin instead.


Screenshots are not accurate

Get a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Search, add, edit, view, re-order – all is just one click away!

Lock Pages vs Admin Menu Tree Page View