pageMash
This is a simple WordPress page management plugin. The Ajax interface allows you to drag-and-drop the pages into the order you like, modify the page structure by dragging a page to become a child or parent and toggle the page to be hidden from output.
I’ve made a simple example page so feel free to have a play around.
Features:
- Quick re-ordering of pages
- Drag and drop management of page hierarchy
- Dynamic alternate list colouring
- Double click to expand/collapse list nodes
- Quick page renaming
- Toggle page visibility
Screenshot:
Last updated: 2009-2-20
Total downloads: 83,837
Stable: v1.3.0
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pagemash/
Recent posts on pageMash
@Reply August 6th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Hi There. Does the plugin work with WP 2.6? This page http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pagemash/ tells me, that it’s Compatible up to: 2.5. I’m sorry, if that is true. Why? It’s a GREAT plugin!
@Reply August 6th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
@Thomas Bo Christensen: Sure does and you’re right I need to update that.
@Reply September 1st, 2008 at 9:08 am
Hi,
i’m expereancing a weird problem: The changes I make in my page order / lineup using your plugin (no matter, whether its order, position, name, show/hide) will not be saved.
The plugin shows that red rectangle “database updated”, but my main page stays the same and when I click on the the “pageMash”-Tab in “Manage” again, all changes are gone.
Seems like the AJAX-Saving is not working.
I’m using the latest version of the plugin on WP 2.6.
Thanks for any help!
Tobias
@Reply September 4th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Hi,
I found the solution:
There seem to be 2 bugs:
In pagemash.js (line 52) the Ajax-Call should be
new Ajax(’/wp-content/plugins/pagemash/saveList.php’, {
In saveList.php (line 18) not wp-config.php should be included, but wp-load.php (which checks for the correct path, because wp-config.php may have been moved out of the public accessible htdocs-folder (since WP 2.6)). Since wp-config.php will then load wp-settings.php itself, line 19 is no longer necessary and should be removed.
After those fixes, saving works fine again and the plugin is actually usable again.
Hopefully this will help others, too.
And maybe Joel could release a fixed package of the plugin.
Tobias
@Reply September 4th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Thanks Tobias that really is a great help! I was just trying to get round to looking into it, but sounds like you’ve done the work.
I will try update the download as soon as I get the chance.
Cheers again, Joel.
@Reply September 4th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
@Tobias: Just checked my diff, looks like I had already updated to using wp-load.php but hadn’t updated the repo yet.
As for the ajax call (correct me if I’m wrong) but your way won’t work if WP is running in a subdirectory of a domain, which is why I was using a relative path.
(and neither way will work if the user decides to move wp-content)
@Reply September 5th, 2008 at 4:32 am
Hi,
yes, I guess the loading of wp-load.php is the more important bugfix. I actually stumbled about the whole thing, because I saw that saveList.php gave back a missing-file-error in the firebug-debug-console. That was because I had moved my wp-config.php up one directory, so that it is no longer accessible by direct call. Then I saw, that wp-config.php includes its own call of wp-settings.php, which of course had not moved. So all this lead to finding out that wp-load.php was the correct file to include, because it should always be in the main directory of the wordpress-installation.
I’m not really sure if there is a problem with the ajax-call, it just looked weird to me that it had the “../” in front of the wp-content. But now I realize that the call comes from within the wp-admin-directory, which is on the same level as wp-content is. I previously thought the call would come from within the pagemash-plugin-directory, which is of course wrong. So the ../ is indeed correct and my first bug description is wrong. That way WP inside a subdirectory of the domain will work. The only problem would be a renamed wp-content-folder, as you correctly said. But I don’t no if there is a workaround for that because we are inside a java-script file. One possible way would be to make it a php-script which just returns the js-code with the correctly determined path.
But thats probably overhead, as I believe there are not that many people yet with a renamed wp-content. So maybe a quick note in the installation instructions to adjust that line in the .js-file to the renamed wp-content-folder will be enough.
Thanks for the quick bugfix release though!
Tobias
@Reply September 15th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Hi Tobias
Thanks for this great plugin which worked fie until my 2.6.3 update. Here, the page on Back Office is right but it’s impossible to move the things on it. An idea ? (i’m not on a subfolder)
Many, many thanks
@Reply September 15th, 2008 at 6:46 am
@Jean Bruno: the latest stable release of WP is 2.6.2 is this what you meant?
The problem is more likely to be an incompatibility with another plugin, try disabling your other plugins temporarily and see if pageMash will then work.
@Reply September 16th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
What a FanTAStic plugin!!! Thank you so much. It’s a lifesaver for anybody managing a site with more than 20 or so pages.
I only wish it’d replace the lame and unwieldy default Manage->Pages interface.
@Reply September 24th, 2008 at 7:02 am
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@Reply November 22nd, 2008 at 10:06 am
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
baron
@Reply November 25th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
FYI - pageMash doesn’t seem to be compatible with the plugin “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade”
Thanks for pageMash, keep up the great work!
@Reply December 4th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Great plugin but I found the drag/drop quite unfriendly because items were going every which way and sometimes I didn’t remember where I picked an item up from. You may want to look at how google ig or live.com imlpement drag drop (using marquees and showing a preview before dropping) as that is the standard drag and drop design pattern.
@Reply December 10th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Great plugin, should be in wordpress by default! 2.7? Well I guess 2.8 might be up to speed
@Reply December 16th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Like I said previously, Great plugin!
I’ve been using it on more than one blog now.
With 2.7, you could simply use in the built-in admin sortables and css styles.
That’s my only criticism, otherwise don’t change a thing!
@Reply December 16th, 2008 at 12:37 am
By the way, I think the openID plugin I have installed isn’t working anymore after the upgrade.
Sorry.
@Reply December 17th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Thanks for the great plugin. I think i found a bug in 1.1.6 that results in an “Error: Update Timeout”. The fix is easy, in line 52 of pagemash.js the filename needs to have the case fixed so it works on case sensitive servers like apache. Hope this helps!
@Reply December 27th, 2008 at 2:43 am
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@Reply January 5th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
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@Reply January 8th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Hi, the layout of my pagemash is broken, doenst impair the functionality, but still
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/6429/pagemashxe5.jpg
@Reply January 8th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
@Janzomaster:
It is more than likely because of another plug-in, try disabling all the other plug-ins and see if the problem persists.
@Reply January 9th, 2009 at 7:50 am
great work, thanks a lot !!!
@Reply January 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
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@Reply January 11th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
@Joel: Thanks for the quick reply, but deactivating all other plugins didnt change anything.
@Reply January 15th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Hi, Seems to be a nice plugin but i cannot get it to work because it is not showing under widgets nor anywhere else in admin. Any idea what this could be? I am on WP 2.7.
Thanks in advance.
Toto
@Reply January 15th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
@Toto: It doesn’t register it’s own widget, just use the normal pages one. There should be an admin page similar to the screenshot on wordpress.org under the ‘Pages’ menu named ‘pageMash’.
@Janzomaster: That’s very odd, and this appears in more than one web browser? It should be pretty easy to find what’s causing it, but I can’t do that without access, so I can try and explain to you how to do it if you’re interested?
@Reply January 15th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
@Joel: Thanks for the quick reply.
Sure i am interest. But just one question before we spend too much work for nothing. With your plugin is it possible to display subpages as well when clicked on the parent page and hidden on default? Toto
@Reply January 15th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
@Joel: Soyy i meant to reply this to “@Janzomaster:”
Ahhhh under the “Pages” menu. hmmmm got that wrong. Sorry about that and thanks Joel for and Janzomaster for your help.
@Reply January 19th, 2009 at 3:13 am
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@Reply January 20th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Hello!
I’m using clean WP2.7 with no plugs except your pageMash 1.2.1. No WP caching and I’m deleting browser cache every time. And permalinks are like: /category/postname/
Found that after clicking update, though URL under link and menu hierarchy is ok, I see 404 WP page. Managed to fix in this way: open Permalink Settings and just click “Save changes”. Or open page for editing and just click update. I have no idea what happens.
Thanks.
@Reply January 20th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Ok, I fixed.
file: savelist.php
if (isset($v->children[0])) {saveList($id, $v->children);}
$i++;
}
global $wp_rewrite; #added
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); #lines
}
Thanks.
@Reply January 20th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
@Alexey: Thanks!
It’s nice getting a decent bug report, rather than ‘it doesn’t work’… but even nicer when it comes with the fix too.
@Reply February 17th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
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@Reply February 20th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Hi
I like your plugin. A Danish translation is available at http://wordpress.blogos.dk/2009/02/20/pagemash-da_dk/
You are welcome to include the language files in the distribution. I have updated the files to the new version 1.3.0.
All the best,
Georg
@Reply February 20th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
@Georg: Cheers Georg, I’ll add it in.
@Reply March 1st, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Hi there,
I like what the plugin is supposed to do, but when I click “update” I get the message “Error: Update Timeout.”
@Reply March 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 am
Nice plugin. Does the job very well.
@Reply March 3rd, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Hi!
THX 4 this plugin! Btw, I think ur link above “http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postmash/” should be pagemash, not postmash.
JL
@Reply March 4th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Great plugin… I just have one suggestion.
Instead of adding the jquery library to WP_HEAD it should be hooked to admin_head or admin_head-(plugin_page)
This way it won’t load JQUERY on the themes if it is not needed.
@Reply March 4th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Something funny happened, after deactivating and reactivating the plugin it stopped adding son of the JS files… probably an old configuration that got cleaned after that.
@Reply March 4th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
@Jester Lewis: thanks, changed that now.
@Moises: I’m not sure quite what you’re talking about, pageMash doesn’t even use jQuery and never has!!
It uses mootools which is added using the wp_enqueue_script function called from a ‘admin_print_scripts-$page’ hook.
jmash
@Reply March 9th, 2009 at 7:28 am
does pagemash let you move widgets around?
@Reply March 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
@jenny: No. That’s already built into WordPress and not really anything to do with pageMash.
@Reply March 15th, 2009 at 11:26 am
I’m using the page mash plugin on various blogs and its a great help for quick and easy organizing of pages. I am wondering if it would be possible to write a similar plugin to do a mashup of the admin pages? Its a very appealing idea to have this kind of control over the admin menu. Since my programming skills are far below what’s needed to do that - can you imagine writing a plugin like that?
@Reply March 15th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
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@Reply March 15th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
@michael: thanks, your idea does sound as if it could be quite useful, however it would not be trivial to implement and I don’t have the time to spare unfortunately.
@Reply March 19th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Hi,
i have a problem that is very similar to one described by Alexey above.
I setup a fresh 2.7.1 install (checkout via subversion /tags/2.7.1) and install the latest version 1.3.0 of your great plugin. I set the permalink structure to /%postname%/ .
I create the following page hierarchy:
+ Parent1
+ Sub1
+ Parent2
+ Sub2
Then i use pageMash to move Sub1 down such that it becomes a child of Parent2 and sits next to Sub2.
When i visit the site, the page menu looks as expected and hovering over the links shows URLs as expected (e.g. /Parent2/Sub1 for the Sub1 page).
However, when i click on the Sub1 link i get an “Error 404 - Not found”.
Just like Alexey describes it, the problem disappears if i edit Sub1 and save it. Alternatively, updating the permalink structure (Settings -> Permalinks -> Save changes) also helps.
Would you be so kind and investigate the problem?
thanks in advance!
chris
@Reply March 19th, 2009 at 11:51 am
@chris: Alexey has solved the problem, I just need to put an update out. Thanks for reminding me though. I’ve also had a couple of additional translations I’ll stick in too.
@Reply March 20th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Hi Joel,
thank you for this great plugin, it makes sorting pages a lot easier. I have one question though: is there any way while using your plugin to hide some pages in the sidebar but still make all of them appear on a page that lists all pages by wp_list_pages?
@Reply March 20th, 2009 at 9:00 am
hi,
I have the same problem and tried to fix this with the code from alexey:
if (isset($v->children[0])) {saveList($id, $v->children);}
$i++;
}
global $wp_rewrite; #added
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); #lines
}
but it doesn’t work, there is the same problem with the 404-page again. I have no idea, why…
I use WP 2.7.1 and your pluginversion 1.3.0.
By the way: thank you very much for the plugin.
I hope it will be work
thx, Till
@Reply March 20th, 2009 at 9:21 am
ok, i had to delete the line 66 ($wp_rewrite->flush_rules();) in savelist.php. now it works great.
Again: thank you very much for this very usefull plugin.
@Reply March 21st, 2009 at 5:11 pm
fabulous plugin! one bug to report: when I click “rename” to rename the post, if i try to use my mouse to select some text in the page title, immediately the entire page begins to drag around. in other words, i can’t highlight text with the cursor. when in “rename” mode, i am temporarily not interested in changing the placement of the page itself. also, once i move the page, its gets stuck in an uneditable condition. hopefully you can recreate this, i am using WP 2.7.1, firefox 3.
@Reply March 23rd, 2009 at 10:47 am
@Barbara: no that’s not possible. But you could use something similar to the following insteadof using the wp_list_pages function:
<?php
$postslist = get_posts('numberposts=10&order=ASC&orderby=title&post_type=page');
foreach($pageslist as $page):
?>
<?php setup_postdata($page); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php
endforeach;
?>
n.b. I haven’t checked that code, but should be fine.
@Reply March 24th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Joel, thank you for your help! In your code the second word should be $pageslist, otherwise there is an error. But even so it only outputs a list of the same title. Do you have any other idea?
@Reply March 24th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Never mind, I just found something myself by searching the codex
This works:
<a href="">
@Reply March 24th, 2009 at 8:51 am
@Barbara: Oops, the code got killed.
@Reply March 27th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
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@Reply April 2nd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
I love Pagemash — but would like to see one additional feature added. The ability to add html coded links in addition to the pages within Wordpress. This would allow me to add a drop-down menu with list items that would open in a pop-in window (e.g. lightbox). Example implementation would be perfect for a link to an image gallery.
Also, the ability to add a main category (but not have it linked to a physical page) would be great. So the menu might have “gallery” and subpages “image gallery” + “video gallery” — and only the two subpages have physical wp pages.
Hopefully that makes sense!
@Reply April 3rd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
I have the plug-in installed and have some pages hidden so that they will not show up in navigation but there are about 10 pages that continue to show up even thou they are hidden - is this a bug or is something not working some place - ?? thanks
@Reply April 9th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Hi!
Advanced apologies if this has been addressed already but…
is this compatible with WordPress MU?
Thanks!
@Reply April 13th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
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@Reply April 15th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Hello,
Looks like a very promising plugin, but I was wondering if it is possible to default to loading with all sub-pages collapsed. We have a blog with 3000+ pages and loading all that every time we load the PageMash admin screen is a bit slow. Is it possible to default to opening with all subpages collapsed? Also, does the plugin load all pages when the admin screen is loaded? Or only those that are visible? ie… are you using ajax to populate the sub-pages?
Thanks a bunch,
James.
@Reply April 16th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Hi there,
Just tried your plugin and am impressed by it! Would be great if they built something similar into the core - now that pages is playing a bigger part for many WP users, it needs to be easy to re-order.
I was wondering if you’ve thought about multi language issues - not translations, but when there is more than one language used for the site, with a plugin such as qTranslate. I have two languages and get both page titles in the bars when using pageMash. The qTranslate author wrote this help page - http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=294 - to help with this issue, any chance you’d give this a shot??
Thanks! karl
@Reply April 19th, 2009 at 8:34 am
@Betsy: it would be very useful to be able to add other links into the navigation other than pages and was one of the first things I looked into doing. Unfortunately there isn’t any particularly easy way to achieve this.
@James: well it’s not a feature.. I can only suggest disabling other plug-ins and see if that helps.
@Spicer: I’m not sure, I’ve never tested it with WP MU, but I don’t see why not.
@James: It is possible to default with all pages closed; there is a variable right at the top of the main pagemash.php called CollapsePagesOnLoad you can set to true (sorry no nice interface to set this, it’s on my never-ending to do list).
However, it won’t help your problem as all pages are loaded with the page load.
@Karl: Thanks for the link, yeah I’ll try and get round to sorting out compatibility with qtranslate as it seems a lot of people use it.
@Reply April 20th, 2009 at 8:42 am
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@Reply April 21st, 2009 at 5:32 pm
@Joel: I completely understand things being too hard to implement easily. Hope you consider adding it (to your very long list of things to do) at some point in the future!
@Reply April 23rd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
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@Reply April 30th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I am a real newbie at using Wordpress. I have posted several blogs but now I would like to “re-order” them. Your plugin sounds like what I need but does it work for POSTS or only pages? I downloaded , installed and ativtaed but it only shows in the Pages section. If not pagemash, do you know of a plugin or technique to re-order posts?
Thanks
@Reply May 10th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
[...] to this, and it doesn’t involve modifying any code. All you have to do is install the PageMash plugin. This not only gives you the option of reorganizing the order or your pages, it also gives [...]
@Reply May 24th, 2009 at 9:45 am
On WP 2.7.1 , I added
wp_deregister_script(’jquery’); to make pagemash and postmash work
line 134 / line 149
@Reply June 10th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Language files for the latest version - Russian Language :
http://wp-skins.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pagemash-ru_ru.zip
I would be grateful for a reference with a link to my blog.
@Reply June 11th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
[...] Go to download page If like me you use WP as a CMS to build regular websites then you will no doubt use a lot of pages instead of posts. The Wordpress interface basically sucks when it comes to having to re-order your pages and this plugin rectifies that suckiness. The Ajax interface allows you to drag-and-drop the pages into the order you like, modify the page structure by dragging a page to become a child or parent and toggle the page to be hidden from output. Just what we were looking for! [...]
@Reply June 11th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
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@Reply June 11th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I love this plugin! Would it be possible to add a feature that allows this plugin to control page templates so that you can control what categories get displayed on what pages (photo posts get displayed on the photo page only)?
@Reply June 12th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Hi-
I can’t get the page re-order to work for the sub-pages. My widget still shows them in alphabetical order. It orders the main pages correctly, but not the subs. Can you help?
Ken
@Reply June 22nd, 2009 at 10:53 am
Hello,
In addition to my post on 16 April, I just stumbled on a forum post which shows a way to add support for qTranslate - http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=193&start=0&hilit=add+language. The line referred to is now #80 rather than #77, but the effect is the same. In addition to just swapping it out, perhaps one should also do a check if qTranslate is installed at all.
Just thought I’d post this, in case you’d feel like including it the plugin - would be appreciated by many I think.
Thanks, karl