[wp-testers] Page Ordering

Andrew Ozz admin at laptoptips.ca
Wed Apr 30 23:49:42 GMT 2008


Alexander Beutl wrote:
>> Can you just insert the child rows underneath the parent with the
>> names indented as they are now? I don't think we have to have a
>> proper tree view.
> 
> 
> Which wouldn't be of any help if someone has to handle some hundreds of
> pages - right?
> I am thinking about a website which has 5 Levels...
> 
>  Foo
> ---- Bar
> -------- Baz
> ----------- Biz
> --------------- Buz
> 
> That eats some pixels... (yep I know deep nav structures aren't good, but 5
> Levels are not soo uncommon, when it comes to larger sites, remember, Andrew
> spoke about 500-600, or several thousands of pages... while I wouldn't
> manage such deep and large sites with WordPress anyway - for such sites
> TYPO3 is a good choice)
> 
> Thats just why I said this should be a plugin and not something handled by
> core - the needs are such different that one can not fit them all. And to
> come back to that Bikeshed:
> If you need to put it in core everyone is buzzing around to get his idea
> into it. When you're working on a plugin everyone can write there own to fit
> there needs if yours doesn't do that.
> 
> I would publish it as plugin anyway, since I don't belive in putting this in
> core. I would be honored by any adoption into core, of course, but I don't
> belive it would be good. Better to have 10 different approaches
> with 10 different plugins to fit all needs than to have one core approach
> which can not fit all needs.

I'm actually not sure if there are sites with that many pages... 
Possibly. But having lots of categories is not that uncommon for larger 
blogs with many authors. And they are also hierarchical like the pages, 
so perhaps the plugin could handle both pages and categories listing.


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