Justin Tadlock

<p>The <em>Query Posts</em> widget was written to allow users that don’t know their way around PHP to easily show posts in any way they’d like.  It’s like having a cool WordPress developer as a friend ready to do your bidding.  Seriously.</p>
<p>The widget has over 40 options to choose from.  You can list posts by category, tag, custom taxonomies, author, date, time, name, or anything you can imagine.  You can choose to show the full content, excerpts, or even a simple list.  You can order the posts in all sorts of ways.  Oh, and you can even show pages.</p>
<p>This is the widget that keeps users out of the code and gives them the ability to display items on their site how they want.</p>


Query Posts

A WordPress widget that gives you unlimited control over showing posts and pages.

Jon Christopher

Pär Thernström

<p>Adds a CMS-like tree overview of all your pages and custom posts to WordPress – much like the view often found in a page-focused CMS.</p>
<p>Also check out <a href="https://organizewp.com/?utm_campaign=migrate&utm_source=cmstpv&utm_medium=readme&utm_content=desclink" rel="nofollow ugc">OrganizeWP</a> if your goal is to incorporate multiple content types into a single view!</p>
<p>Within this tree you can edit pages, view pages, add pages, search pages, and drag and drop pages to rearrange the order.</p>
<p>CMS Tree Page View is a good alternative to plugins such as pageMash, WordPress Page Tree and My Page Order. For <strong>multiple content types</strong> and other new features check out <a href="https://organizewp.com/?utm_campaign=migrate&utm_source=cmstpv&utm_medium=readme&utm_content=desclink" rel="nofollow ugc">OrganizeWP</a> as well.</p>
<p>Page management in WordPress won’t get any easier than this!</p>
<h4>Features and highlights:</h4>
<ul>
<li>View your pages & posts in a tree-view, like you view files in Windows Explorer or the Finder in OS X</li>
<li>Drag and drop to rearrange/order your pages</li>
<li>Add pages after or inside a page</li>
<li>Add multiple pages at once – perfect for setting up a new site structure</li>
<li>Edit pages</li>
<li>View pages</li>
<li>Search pages</li>
<li>Available for both regular pages and custom posts</li>
<li>Works with both hierarchical and non-hierarchical post types</li>
<li>View your site hierarchy directly from the WordPress dashboard</li>
<li>Drag and drop between trees with different post types to change to post type of the draged item, i.e. change a regular page to became any custom post type</li>
<li>Support for translation plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/" rel="ugc">WPML</a>, so you can manage all the languages of your site</li>
</ul>
<h4>Show your pages on your site in the same order as they are in CMS Tree Page View</h4>
<p>To show your pages on your website in the same order as they appear in this plugin, you must<br />
sort them by “menu order”.</p>
<pre><code>// Example using query_posts
$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'page',
  'orderby'=> 'menu_order',
  'order'=>'ASC',
);
$posts = query_posts($args);

// Example using wp_query
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'page',
    'orderby' => 'menu_order',
    'order' => 'ASC',
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
</code></pre>
<h4>Screencast</h4>
<p>(An updated screencast is coming soon!)</p>
<p>Watch this screencast to see how easy you could be managing your pages:<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H4BGomLi_FU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h4>Translations/Languages</h4>
<p>This plugin is available in the following languages:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Belorussian</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>Hungarian</li>
<li>Norwegian</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Greek</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Lithuanian</li>
<li>Estonian</li>
<li>Finnish</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
<li>Ukrainian, by <a href="http://getvoip.com" rel="nofollow ugc">getvoip.com</a></li>
<li>Slovak</li>
</ul>
<h4>Always show your pages in the admin area</h4>
<p>If you want to always have a list of your pages available in your WordPress admin area, please check out the plugin<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-menu-tree-page-view/" rel="ugc">Admin Menu Tree Page View</a>.</p>
<h4>Donation and more plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li>Check out my other plugin <a href="http://simple-history.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple History</a> if you want to see a log of changes in your WordPress admin. With Simple History you can see login attempts (both failed and sucessful), page changes, plugin updated, and more. It’s a great way to view user actions on your site!</li>
<li>If you like this plugin don’t forget to <a href="http://eskapism.se/sida/donate/" rel="nofollow ugc">donate to support further development</a>.</li>
</ul>


CMS Tree Page View


CMS Tree Page View is straightforward, very useful and well-maintained. Everything that open source should be. WordPress owes its success to developers like Jon Christopher and Pär Thernström who create powerful, truly open source solutions like CMS Tree Page View and Simple History and share them for free, without huge advertising banners or interruption marketing with unnecessary admin notifications.



We are proud to modestly sponsor Simple History and Pär. We sponsored Jon Christopher enough with his SearchWP plugin which practices discriminatory pricing against existing users (much higher renewal prices than purchase prices) which is the antithesis of the open source spirit.


Well-maintained, extremely useful open source tool

Adds a tree view of all pages & custom posts. Get a great overview + options to drag & drop to reorder & option to add multiple pages.

Query Posts vs CMS Tree Page View