CMS Tree Page View is a WordPress plugin that adds a CMS-like tree overview of all your pages, like the view often found in a page-focused CMS. This page tree gives you a great overview over all your pages and you can use the page tree to quickly drag-and-drop your pages to change their order.
Plugin Features
- View and organize pages in a simple to use tree view
- Available both on it’s own page and on the dashboard
- Edit pages directly from the tree
- Add pages at any place in the tree
- Drag and drop to rearrange your pages
- Search pages
- See all pages – including private and drafts – or just publicly available pages
This plugin is for admin use only. If you’re looking for a plugin are visible on the public side of your website, for your visitors, then check out my other WordPress-plugin Simple Navigation.
Screenshots of CMS Tree Page View
The tree in action. Such a beauty, don’t you think?
On mouse over you can edit, view and add pages.
Looking for a page? Just search for it!
Drag-and-drop to rearrange your pages. Quick and easy!
Screencast / Video
I quick video showing you most of the features of CMS Tree Page View:
Hey Pär,
short question. Does your Plugin work with Custom Post Types?
short answer: not yet!
I’ll look forward
Thanks for your awesome work.
I love this Page View Plugin that you have provided for general use.
I will endorse your work because I haven’t had a single problem with the plugin to-date …. other plugins can be a nightmare, an absolute headache to use and fix when they go wrong …. but NOT YOURS!
You have got it right!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, you make this newbie to WP a very happy person indeed.
Wow, thanks for all the kind words!
is there a way to completely get rid of Pages in the sidebar of the dashboard and only show this Tree Menu?
Hm.. probably. I have never though about that. I’ll see if I can find a solution for that.
If anyone else out there got a solution, please post it!
I did something like this by creating a helper plugin. (Pär, you might remember I mentioned this in the WordPress forums). Svara, give this a try and see what you think:
http://pastebin.com/DBBK40Ts
Ah, yes. Sorry.. gonna try your plugin/modification again.. for real this time!
@Dalton: Sorry to double-post. I can install and customize WordPress, but JUST figured out how to respond to your comment in the right place…!
Anyway, how does one implement that helper plugin code you referenced? I tried copying your code into a file named “cms-tree-page-view-helper.php” in the plugins folder. That allowed me to activate your plugin, but it doesn’t “Replace the standard Edit page with the CMS Tree Page View.” And yes, I have the CMS Tree Page View plugin installed and running fine. WP 3.0.3.
Please have a look in the WP forum to see how I got this working with another plugin (Admin Menu Editor)!
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-cms-tree-page-view-replace-the-built-in-page-manager
Upgraded to the new version, and its broken or
maybe it just doesn’t like my theme (Carrington Jam), but I get this error message…
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Fatal error: Call to undefined function arrary() in /home/content/d/e/k/dekalbhealth/html/wpBETA/wp-content/plugins/widget-logic/widget_logic.php(161) : eval()’d code on line 1
That does not seem to be caused by this plugin. It seems like a problem with the plugin ”widget logic”.
Your right and I figured it out 30 minutes or so after I made my reply.
Thanks!
Hi, your tree view plugin has been a huge help simplifying how I order my pages. But wiith these last two upgrades something strange has happened. I get the page tree view on the dashboard but when I go to the stand alone page it is a “Post” tree view. Very strange.
A post tree view would be very nice but I also would like my page tree view back : )
Still a great plugin!
Thanks for the bug report. Another user also reported this so I must have done something terribly wrong somewhere. :/
Anyway, I’ll try to find fix this as soon as possible and post another update.
Pär,
Your latest upgrade did the trick. It works like a charm now. Hopefully it will work just as well for the other person who reported this.
Thank you,
Chip
Great plugin! Only thing that doesn’t work for me is the auto update of the links. If I move a page to become a subpage of an existing page all the pages work (links). However when I move the newly created subpage back to become a root page, the link doesn’t work. It shows a 404 error. The link the page editor shows when editing the page is correct, and if i update the page without making changes the (same) page links works perfectly.
Ok, thanks for the report. I’ll try and see if that happens for me too, and if it does I will fix it in the next version.
I am unable to reproduce this. Do you have any plugins installed that could interfere with CMS Tree Page View? Perhaps a cache-plugin or similar?
Ok, I think I’ve solved it. It was a problem with cache-plugins. I got the problem with DB Cache Reloaded, but the same problem probably exists with other caching plugins.
I will try to post a new version later today.
Just updated to the new version, and the problem is gone. Thanks alot for your fast response. I was using w3 total cache, so I guess it indeed was a cache plugin that was conflicting.
Again, great work on the plugin and the fix!
http://s3.amazonaws.com/floomby/8_20_2010/Bf8hH2NMfUy2L0Dodk0R0w.png
Great plugin, thanks a lot! If you allow me to ask – is there something similar for the Attributes: select a parent page drop-down menu – I’ve got a very long list of pages and if I need to assign a parent page to a new one I have to scroll down through all my pages. If the pages to choose from were displayed with check boxes (as the categories are) it would be much easier to assign a parent page from a very long list.
Thanks
Hej, jag använder detta plugin dagligen i min webshop det är helt underbart!
Det enda som saknas är en “delete” eller “Trash” länk, alla vill kanske inte ha detta, men det borde finnas en setting, som slåt på den, för det så galet plågsamt att behöva gå in på en vara för att kunna ta bort den!
Älskar det jobb du gör! Du och dina pluggin har sparat mig många timmars arbete!!
Tack!
Tackar! Jag har väl en vag tanke/idé om att införa någon form av markera-flera-artiklar-och-gör-något-med-dom-funktion. Typ flytta till papperskorgen.
Någon har föreslagit möjligheten att ersätta vanliga pages-sidan med min plugin, och jag måste nog medge att jag är inne på den linjen också. Men isf måste CMS Tree Page View klara av allt som vanliga pages-sidan kan. Typ flytta till papperskorgen..
If only you had the same idea for internal work with categories…
We moved our site from one server to another. Everything was working semo-perfectly before -had issues with timing out so we moved. After the move it tree wouldn’t expand -I reinstalled. Now when I move a page to a different location in the tree, it doesn’t update the URL and if I go to a different page and come back, it reverts to original location. Any ideas?
Sounds a bit strange. No new plugin or anything? Perhaps you have any caching or redirecting-plugins that could interfere with my plugin?
I have a lot of draft and pending pages. Is it possible to have the default view of the page widget on the dashboard be ‘public’ rather than ‘all’?
Jason
Thanks for the feedback Jason. I’ll take that into consideration. Perhaps I’ll make an option for that…
Jill Rhoads: me too! Any luck finding a plugin (or script) that allows for the same for post categories? Thanks for a nice plugin!
Great plugin. Thanks a lot.
Hi there, I love this plugin, however its not working in IE8, works with all the others..any ideas?
Your plugins are excellent.
Wanted to donate, but your PayPal donate page is not in English. Maybe, providing an English donation page might help. To many fields on a donation form may chase donors away.
Suggestion:
Your Simple Fields plugin reminds mean of Drupal Views that allows users to query their database and output custom results. WordPress does not have such a plugin. It would be worth a great deal to many people. I would be prepared to pay for such a plugin.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for your comment. I’ll make sure that the PayPal donate page is in English in the future (to be honest, I never understood that it was in Swedish for all users!).
I’ll see if I can take a look at the Drupal Views feature. Probably don’t have the time or need for it right now.. but you never know
Ok, I’ve updated the donate page and I hope it’s in english now.
http://eskapism.se/sida/donate/
Please try it out by donating
Hello,
Your plugin seems to be great, but I can’t make it work. As soon as I enable it, my website stops working and displays those two lines :
Warning: require_once(includes/fn-general.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/38/d251675450/htdocs/functions.php on line 11
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘includes/fn-general.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php5′) in /homepages/38/d251675450/htdocs/functions.php on line 11
I don’t know what to do.
Thank you.
Hi! Sorry to hear you’re having a problem. I do however don’t believe that error is caused by my plugin. The file “fn-general.php” is not part of the plugin anyway. My guess is that it is another plugin that is the root of your problem. Try disabled all other plugins and see if you get the same error.
Hello.
I’ve tried, but the error is still there, even with the new version. I don’t understand at all..
If I disable all the extensions, all works fine.
If I enable all the extensions except yours, all works fine.
If I enable only your extension, I’ve got the error.
If I enable all the extensions, I’ve got the error.
I upgraded to the latest version of CMS Tree Page View (0.7.10) and now it doesn’t want to expand the 45 sub-pages under a parent page in a tree view. Other parent page i got has 36 sub-pages and there is no problem with viewing them. Oh, and I probably should mention that every of this 45 pages has 8 sub-pages. Can you help me out?
Hi there,
I ran into a little problem with your plugin. I am using WPML. I have 125 pages that are translated in 3 languages, when I move one page with CMS Tree Page View it looses the connection to the other translated pages, we have done extensive rearranging and then all the pages have lost their connction to each other …….
best regards
Joe
Hi, I have also same problem. Running WP 3.1 and WPML 2.1.1. Any news on this issue?
@Dalton: How does one implement that helper plugin code you referenced? I tried copying your code into a file named “cms-tree-page-view-helper.php” in the plugins folder. That allowed me to activate your plugin, but it doesn’t “Replace the standard Edit page with the CMS Tree Page View.” And yes, I have the CMS Tree Page View plugin installed and running fine. WP 3.0.3.
Hi Pär: Any word on correcting the error that happens with CMS Tree Page View and NextGen Gallery?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-using-cms-tree-page-view-and-nextgen-gallery
Hi, First, thanks very much for a really helpful plugin.
Works perfectly and as expected. If you don’t mind though, may I
suggest a minor tweak. It would be nice if there was a slight delay
before the ‘action’ box appears after mousing over a menu item.
Often, I have to move the mouse completely off the menu in order to
see what is under the ‘actions’ box, and then bring the mouse back
after (I hope that makes sense). Just to say again, really
appreciate the plugin. Paul.
That’s a good idea Paul. I’ll add it to my todo-list.
Do you know of a plugin that allows us to create a page tree like structure to organize the pages but without changing the URL path names? Is this possible to do inside of your plugin?
I have been trying to get it to do this for a while now and cannot figure out a way to make it happen!
I’m sorry, but I don’t know any plugin that can do that. :/
great plug-in!
have been using it for my static pages some time and it works just fine
is it possible to use it for reordering posts?
/greg
Posts are sorted by date, and this plugin only changes the page order, so it’s not possible.
Hi Pär:
I see there’s a new version available (0.7.14) and am wondering if it deals with the two questions I’ve brought up above…
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1. CMS Tree Page View to replace the built-in page manager?
In the WP forum link below, I detailed how I tweaked /cms-tree-page-view/functions.php to achieve this with the “Admin Menu Editor” plugin. Was that tweak incorporated into the new version of your plugin? Or will I have to do it again?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-cms-tree-page-view-replace-the-built-in-page-manager
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2. Does 0.7.14 correct the documented error that happens with CMS Tree Page View and NextGen Gallery?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-using-cms-tree-page-view-and-nextgen-gallery
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Again, great plugin. Very helpful indeed, thanks!
This plugin is awesome – very impressed!
Is there a way to disable the descriptive popup windows in the tree? I run into having to move my cursor out because some of the popup windows are large and block parts of the tree as I move down.
Not currently, but I understand your problem. I’ll see if I can come up with a solution in a future version.
Hej Pär, awsome plugin!
Is there a way of applying the same interface to other taxonomies (custom ones) behaving the same way as pages (hierarcical, etc)?
Im not necesarily asking u to do it, just wondering if there are any technical obstacles in the wp architecture that might prevent it…
What do say?
I love it.
It would be nice if at some point also could see directly to any page that has the visibility (public, password-protected or private) and whether comments and trackbacks and pingbacks are allowed.
I’d like to suggest that you add a ‘duplicate’ function to the menu that appears when you mouse over a page title in the Tree View. I’ve worked on numerous sites where this would have saved me a considerable amount of time.
Hi,
First of all – thanks for sharing your lovely plugin.
One small debug issue – in development I have DEBUG turned on – but this ‘breaks’ your plugin if errors are displayed in the browser – the ‘PHP notice’ get’s output in a bad location in the code.
Anyway, the notice says that the field …
“caller_get_posts” > 1
… has been deprecated and should be replaced with …
“ignore_sticky_posts” => 1
Once again, thanks.
Is there any chance you could do another plugin to do something like this for the categories?
Hej Pär,
I just got a request from a customer if I could install your Plugin into his WordPress site.
I took a look at your plugin and would like to thank you as this does a good job for getting a better overview in any WP installation, that consists of more than 3 pages
By the way, as you are Swedish, I have got a question for you. Do you know the Swedish name of the administrators group of Windows?
The reason why I am asking is that I built a little DOS/Command batch-file that removes all of the non-latin fonts from a fresh Vista or Windows 7 almost automatically.
I once got a request from a countryman of yours, and he had prbolems to run the script, because it needs the name of the administrators group. In German it’s “Administratoren”, and in Swedish it must be something like “Administratörer” or “Administratører”. Unfortunately we were not able to get this accepted by the cmd-box window, probably because of the wrong “ö/ø” character code.
So if by any chance you have got the time and you do know how to treat this “ö/ø” character in a Swedish Windows’ cmd-box, please let me know.
Oh, I almost forgot the link to my post about how you can delete the non-latin fonts from Windows Visat/7 with my batch file:
http://www.support-ing.net/how-to-remove-windows-7-non-latin-fonts/
Best regards,
Martin
Hi,
Is there a way for the plugin to display the *Page Label* instead of the *Page Title*?
For SEO purposes I have Page Title longer with keywords. For navigation purposes I like to display the shorter Page Label.
The Nice Navigation plugin brilliantly displays the Page Label. I think it would be great for the CMS Tree Page View to do the same. Is this possible??
hello.
Supose I have 100 pages. And I want to rearange them into some folders. Tree folders. But without making them part of another page.
Can I do that?
Hi, is it possible that when I click on “Open all” link, page refreshes automatically? I have a tree from 100 pages and it goes way bellow footer when somebody open all branches.
How can I solve this? Thanks.
Is it possible to tweak the plugin so it will work for all hierarchical post types, not just pages?
Nevermind. I’m an idiot. I wasn’t looking for options under Settings…
It is a really interesting publish! Thanks for this! Using all the best Luke aka couchgool.
CMS Tree Page View is very cool, but not support WordPress Network.
Firstly, thanks for a fantastic plugin – absolutely indispensable! But in the latest upgrade (0.8.7), the view collapses right back down every time you leave the Pages Tree View and then return. This means you have to expand the tree every time you return, wasting several precious seconds. (I’ve justed tested this on my local test site.)
Can this plugin be used to display a tree on the sidebar for users to use as well? that would be good. thanks
CMS Page tree view – IS NOT WORKING.
Is LOADING. and LOADING. and LOADING ! One hour, and nothing change. Can’t load my pages.
What’s happen????
How can I state the page View expanded from start instead of collapsed?
Thanks for a great plugin!
/Ch
You can’t. But once you have expanded it, it should be expanded the next time you show the tree.
Hello.
Your plugin doesn’t work with Ultimatum theme: I’m quite sure this is a theme issue, but I’d like some feedback from you, so I can start nagging Ultimatum’s devs
Does this plugin change the URLs? We want to have a Tree View of our pages so we can find pages later, but we don’t want our URL of website.com/business-owner to change to website.com/about-us/business-owner.
Thanks, in advance, for the help.
Your urls may change, depending on how you arrange them. The plugin itself does not change the URLs, but if you move one page inside another page, then WordPress will change the URL. The plugin is just a “shortcut” to WordPress own GUI.
I use this plugin in pretty much every site I make (so I’m a huge fan), but I’ve had some problems since the last two updates. With version 0.10.1 the ‘add after’ and ‘add inside’ links no longer worked correctly. The page was created, but the order and parent page were forgotten.
I’ve recently upgraded to version 1.0, hoping that this would fix the problem but it has actually gotten worse. The ‘add after’ and ‘add inside’ links no longer work at all. The popup where you can enter the title of the new page never appears.
I’ve replaced the latest version with an earlier one (0.8.14) that works great, but I’m hoping these problems can get resolved so I can once again be ‘up to date’ AND enjoy the Tree View functionality.
Kind regards,
Vivienne
PS. I’m using Firefox 15 on Mac.
I released an update yesterday. Hopefully it fixes your problems. Let me know if it doesn’t…
For some reason the search function does not work any more for me on the dashboard and under Pages > Tree View. Do you know what could be the issue?
I have version 1.2.11 installed. It worked fine before, once I updated to the latest version the search function stopped working.