Follow Up: Editing Pages in WordPress 2.7

Last week I noted that editing pages – specifically changing a page’s sort order, parent, and template – are particularly cumbersome in the current 2.6x release. I suggested the simple alternative would be to simply expose these common functions on the page manager itself, as well as offer drag-and-drop page re-order to set the page sort order.

At Wade’s suggestion I went and downloaded the 2.7 preview hoping that it was what I was looking for.

In the page manager you know have a quick edit link next to every page:

The quick edit exposes some common page fields – including sort, parent, and template:


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From a pure clicks standpoint, this isn’t much of an improvement. The process is the same amount of steps as the old interface:

  • Open the quick edit
  • Make changes
  • Save
  • Rinse and repeat for each page

If you could trim the first step of having to open each page you could quickly tab through a long list of pages and make changes quickly. Oh, and ditching the save would be nice (have one save button).

One Comment

  1. Forrest said:

    I would have to agree that the page sort feature would be nice on the main “Edit Pages” page where you see all of your pages listed. At first I didn’t think there was a page sort. I was starting to think that this was overlooked in 2.7, until I read your post.

    Is it difficult to have to click “Quick edit” each time? No.
    Is it a necessary step that could be avoided? Yes.
    Would drag and drop sort be dope? Hell yeah.
    I’m I bitching? No, WordPress is free and the community is great.

    Thanks for the post.

    Feb 6