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 …

Yann at WP&amp;Co

<h4>Drastically reduce page updating time!</h4>
<p>This WordPress plugin <strong>optimizes page management routines</strong>, it accelerates page saving time by bypassing the very heavy process of rebuilding all the rewriterules of your pretty-permalink enabled blogs each time anything on a page is changed.</p>
<p>When using WordPress as a CMS, it is not unusual to deal with web sites that have a lot of hierarchical pages.<br />
When reaching a few hundred pages and using custom or pretty SEO-aware permalinks, page updates become <strong>VERY</strong> slow.</p>
<p>Eventually, when reaching about 1000 pages, page management becomes quite tedious and time-consuming, because any change in a page takes a few minutes to be saved (during which the site usually comes to a halt because of heavy database load and table lock)<br />
when script or database max request times are finally reached, it becomes impossible to modify anything in a page.</p>
<p>The reason is that <strong>rewrite rules for <em>all</em> the blog’s pages are rebuilt everytime something is changed and saved in a page</strong>, even if the url structure has no reason to change at all.</p>
<p>(This is an aknowledged weakness of WordPress, that has been featured on the TRAC development list for a few years already)</p>
<p>This very short and simple plugin tries to fix this problem for most page updates:<br />
Rewriterules structure will get rebuilt only if the name of the page, or its parent attachment are changed, resulting in tremendous acceleration of the whole updating process.</p>
<p>Since version 0.2.0 you can decide for yourself when to force flushing of page address rewriterules, or when to completely disable rules flushing.<br />
Please take notice that if you disable the rules flushing, your new page addresses will not work until you force a bulk rules flush.</p>
<p>Expect hundred-fold improvement in page update delay in the admin for a 1000+ pages blog.<br />
(from over a minute to less than 10 seconds on one of my 2000+ page blog)</p>
<p>By further <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/10852/10852_get_page_children.diff" rel="nofollow ugc">patching your wp-includes/post.php core file</a><br />
according to <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10852" rel="nofollow ugc">WP trac Ticket #10852</a>, you will possibly get even better performances.</p>
<p><em>(btw. I have another improvement of wp-includes/post.php that I could not yet figure out how to build into a plugin that makes me gain a few more seconds on each save.)</em></p>
<h4>Possible caveat</h4>
<p>This plugin chooses to bypass an important core function of the WordPress administration workflow for the sake of speed.<br />
Be aware that on some specific environments, this could cause unwanted side-effects, such as bad page linking or url permalink structure.</p>
<p>The plugin has however been tested on a 2000+ page medium-loaded site (around 1000 visitors/day) with 50 popular plugins installed and works perfectly for that purpose.</p>
<p>Your own mileage may vary.</p>
<h4>Active support</h4>
<p>Drop me a line on my <a href="http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-fast-page-update" title="Yann Dubois' FAST page update plugin for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">YD FAST page update support site</a> to report bugs or successful implementations, ask for a specific feature or improvement, or just tell me how you’re using the plugin.</p>
<h4>Description en Français :</h4>
<p>Ce plug-in WordPress accélère d’un facteur 100 ou plus le temps de sauvegarde ou mise à jour des pages hiérarchiques d’un blog WordPress comprenant un très grand nombre de pages (plusieurs centaines).</p>
<p>En effet, dès qu’on atteint quelques centaines de pages sur un blog orienté CMS, si on utilise des url “propres” compatibles avec l’optimisation du référencement (SEO), le temps de mise à jour des pages commence à prendre plusieurs minutes.<br />
L’administration des pages devient finalement impossible à cause d’une surcharge de la base de données ou de délais d’exécution trop importants.</p>
<p>Ce plugin règle le problème en évitant de reconstruire toute la structure des liens de toutes les pages du site si le nom de la page ou sa page de rattachement hiérarchique n’ont pas changé.</p>
<p>Le plugin peut fonctionner avec n’importe quelle langue ou jeu de caractères compatible avec WordPress.</p>
<p>Pour toute aide ou information en français, laissez-moi un commentaire sur le <a href="http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-fast-page-update" title="Yann Dubois' FAST page update plugin for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">site de support du plugin YD FAST page update</a>.</p>
<h4>Funding Credits</h4>
<p>Original development of this plugin has been paid for by <a href="http://www.nogent-citoyen.fr" title="Nogent Citoyen" rel="nofollow ugc">Nogent Citoyen</a>. Please visit their site!</p>
<p>Le développement d’origine de ce plugin a été financé par <a href="http://www.nogent-citoyen.com" title="Nogent Citoyen" rel="nofollow ugc">Nogent Citoyen</a>. Allez visiter leur site !</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>If you want to contribute to a translation of this plugin’s documentation, please drop me a line by e-mail or leave a comment on the plugin’s page.</p>
<h3>Revisions</h3>
<ul>
<li>0.1.0 Original beta version.</li>
<li>0.2.0 Added manual rules flush control.</li>
</ul>
<h3>To Do</h3>
<p>Test. Final release.</p>
<h3>Did you like it?</h3>
<p>Drop me a line on http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-fast-page-update</p>
<p>And… <em>please</em> rate this plugin –></p>


YD *FAST* Page update

Speed-up page updating, when using custom permalinks and a lot of pages.

Lock Pages vs YD *FAST* Page update

Lock Pages vs YD FAST Page update