For Developers – Display Page and Post Ids

For those who’ve been using/developing WordPress sites for a while now, you probably have become quite reliant on knowing the actual id number of posts and pages, as well as categories, especially for customizing navigation, as well as creating category specific templates. You probably have also been equally frustrated at them being removed from the admin in 2.5+, I know I have. Well, leave it to the community to solve a problem. Nick Ohrn has cooked up a nice little plugin that replaces these ids, without seemingly compromising the layout of the page one bit. Certainly a worthy plugin for your dev toolbox. Once a site is developed, you could easily turn it off if you are concerned about confusing users, and then activate it as needed for follow up work. However, it certainly is much easier than mousing over each page and writing down the ID, especially on page heavy sites.

Page Category Organiser

Yellow Swordfish

For those who find a need to organize pages by category, Andy put together a plugin that allows for a single category to be assigned to them. This recently updated plugin allows for either a page specific category or categories that are used with posts as well. Keep in mind, this plugin does not add posts to the page, rather allow for better management of sites that use a lot of pages.

List Peer Pages Plugin

Chris McCafferty

If I’m understanding the plugin, if you are on a child page, that has other siblings, this plugin will list those pages, however if you are on the top level/parent page, it will not show those children. As WP evolves to be used more and more as a CMS, and not just for blogging, plugins such as this one become much more handy, at least until the core code is adapted for better page management.