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).
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.