CMS Tree Page View – Reorder Pages with a Drag-and-Drop Tree

CMS Tree Page View saves the order you set as WordPress’ “menu order”. It does not change how your theme or other plugins query and display your pages — that is up to the theme. To show your pages in the same order on the front end, the query that outputs them must sort by menu_order. For example:

This is almost always a JavaScript error from another plugin or your theme that stops the tree from initializing. To track it down:

• Open your browser’s developer console (F12, then the Console tab) on the tree page and look for red errors.
• Temporarily switch to a default theme such as Twenty Twenty-Four.
• Deactivate your other plugins one by one to find the conflict.

Any public post type. By default the tree is enabled for hierarchical post types (such as Pages). You can enable or disable it per post type under Settings → CMS Tree Page View.

Yes. The tree works with any public post type — pages, regular posts, WooCommerce products, and your own custom post types — as long as you enable it for that post type in the settings. It works with both hierarchical and non-hierarchical post types, and you can even drag an item from one tree into another to change its post type.

The same ones they can see on WordPress’ built-in Posts and Pages screens. The tree follows WordPress’ own permissions, so each user only sees content they are allowed to manage. For example, a user who can edit only their own content (such as a Contributor) sees their own pages and posts in the tree, not other people’s drafts — exactly as on the standard WordPress overview screens.

Yes — if you also install the free Simple History plugin. When it’s active, CMS Tree Page View shows recent activity right in the tree: select any page to see its own history — who edited it, and when — or open the “Latest changes” feed to see edits, moves and new pages across your whole site at a glance.