Title: Hierarchy
Author: Jon Christopher
Published: <strong>Январ 5, 2012</strong>
Last modified: Феврал 10, 2022

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Hierarchy

 By [Jon Christopher](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jchristopher/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hierarchy.1.0.5.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://tg.wordpress.org/plugins/hierarchy/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://tg.wordpress.org/plugins/hierarchy/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://tg.wordpress.org/plugins/hierarchy/#installation)
 * [Development](https://tg.wordpress.org/plugins/hierarchy/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hierarchy/)

## Description

**NOTE**: If you’re looking for something more user-focused, take a look at [OrganizeWP](https://organizewp.com/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme)
which is complete rethinking of Hierarchy!

Custom Post Types (sometimes) need context, Hierarchy allows you to rework your 
content management workflow by essentially **moving Custom Post Type admin menus
into your Pages list**. What this does is mimic the navigation you’ve set up on 
your site by placing Custom Post Type edit links amongst your Pages where they belong.

[**» Check out the screenshots to see Hierarchy in action**](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hierarchy/screenshots/)

Hierarchy removes unnecessary entries from the Admin Menu and instead injects theme
where appropriate amongst your Pages, grouping everything under a single ‘Content’
Admin Menu entry.

#### Custom Post Types NEED context

Custom Post Types are great, but the **editing workflow can be improved**. Adding
a Custom Post Type likely results in _another_ WordPress admin sidebar menu, abstracting
the management of that content from the main organization of your site, Pages. Hierarchy
intelligently extends your Pages menu by including your Custom Post Type admin links
_within_ the Page structure, allowing for a much more natural workflow when managing
your content.

#### Examples

Chances are you’ve customized your `Front page displays` setting to display a static
page instead of your latest blog posts. Now you’ve got a sidebar link to manage 
your Posts and a WordPress Page called «Blog» that sites in your list of Pages doing
absolutely nothing. Hierarchy remedies both problems by converting the «Blog» page
link to be one that lists your Posts. It also hides the Posts sidebar entry (if 
you want it to).

It’s also likely that you’re utilizing Custom Post Types to power sections of your
website, but it’s awkward to manage the content of an internal section of your website
using the main WordPress admin sidebar links to your Custom Post Type. Hierarchy
will allow you to hide those sidebar links and instead nest them amongst your Pages,
providing contextual links to manage the content of your Custom Post Types.

#### More information

If you’d like a lot more information on the implementation and workflow changes,
[check out the screenshots](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hierarchy/screenshots/)
and please see [the introduction](https://mondaybynoon.com/introducing-hierarchy/)
and [the follow-up for 1.0](https://mondaybynoon.com/hierarchy-1-0-is-here/).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * A typical WordPress site with multiple CPTs
 * [[
 * Pages are set up to establish structure for the site, but editing CPTs is disjointed
 * [[
 * Hierarchy integrates CPT edit links within your Pages and hides them from the
   Admin Menu
 * [[
 * Hierarchy settings
 * [[
 * Contextual links are included with each row in Hierarchy

## Installation

 1. Download the plugin and extract the files
 2. Upload `hierarchy` to your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

### How to I set up a Custom Post Type as a child?

This relationship is established by the `rewrite` parameter you used in your call
to `register_post_type()` — it should use your desired parent as a base. For example:

You have a WordPress `page` with the slug of `about` and you have a CPT for Team.
Simply set the `rewrite` parameter for your Team CPT to be `about/team` and Hierarchy
will include Team as a child of About.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/289bcbffd4d9404c929c68a9814f5206a7366fbf9fc02822f879ef7abff5309f?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works but undefined index notice](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-but-undefined-index-notice/)󠁿

 [WP Academic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/eastsidecode/) Январ 17, 2020

If running PHP 7+, you can get an undefined index notice on line 408 of class-heirary.
php. A better way of defining $post_types_to_hide on line 408 would be to do the
following: /** * Just create an empty array */ $hideFromMenuFix = array(); if (isset(
$this->settings['hidden_from_admin_menu'])) { $post_types_to_hide = array_intersect(
$this->post_types, (array) $this->settings['hidden_from_admin_menu'] ); } else {//
if not set, use the blank array $post_types_to_hide = array_intersect( $this->post_types,(
array) $hideFromMenuFix ); } Hope this helps!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/aba3ff4419fd7a0e77f398f51d9cbaa6144075fe9ff153f56012a58917d92ed6?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[menu items not restored after deactivating](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-items-not-restored-after-deactivating/)󠁿

 [Nooriji](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nooriji/) Июн 30, 2017 1 reply

The Admin menu items (Pages, Posts, media) are not restored after deactivating the
plugin. This sucks!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1d442bc94c6f4198991d0886f34c9d6482710d5a15ad5e358ef802e2a41818be?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Cool plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cool-plugin-40/)󠁿

 [Slava Abakumov](https://profiles.wordpress.org/slaffik/) Октябр 11, 2016

That cleans up things in your WordPress as CMS installation.

 [ Read all 13 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hierarchy/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Hierarchy” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Jon Christopher ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jchristopher/)

“Hierarchy” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hierarchy/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Hierarchy” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hierarchy)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hierarchy/), check 
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hierarchy/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hierarchy/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hierarchy/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.5.1

 * Fixes PHP Warning
 * Tested up to WordPress 5.2.3

#### 1.0.5

 * Tested up to WordPress 4.9

#### 1.0.4

 * Taxonomies are no longer contingent `public` being true
 * Updated WP_List_Table compat with WordPress 4.4
 * Added pt-BR translation, props brenoalvs

#### 1.0.3

 * Replaced ‘Add New Page’ button with a ‘Shortcuts’ button allowing for rapid access
   to post types and taxonomies
 * Capability checks before outputting links (clicking links without capabilities
   results in a permission denied screen)
 * New filter `hierarchy_settings_capability` to control who can see the Hierarchy
   settings
 * Improved l18n

#### 1.0.2

 * Fixed an issue where pagination wasn’t displaying properly
 * Fixed an issue where standalone (e.g. not ‘child’) CPT entries were not properly
   output

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixed a false positive that would incorrectly output post type entries
 * Clean up .org repo (deploy script didn’t remove legacy files)

#### 1.0

 * Complete refactor: reorganization, optimization, PHP Warning cleanup
 * Bumped minimum WordPress version support to 3.8
 * Use Dashicons where applicable
 * Allow ‘Prevent New’ for post types (prevent adding new entries)
 * New filters to customize Menu entry, Menu position, page title, and more

#### 0.5

 * Improved README, added banner image to help explain Hierarchy
 * Tested with WordPress 3.7

#### 0.4

 * You can now implement pagination on the main ‘Content’ page
 * Aded entry count when considering CPTs to better call attention to posts within
 * Cleaned up a PHP Warning

#### 0.3

 * Added a fix for CPTs not being nested properly in WordPress 3.4+

#### 0.2

 * Added a contextual CPT management link to the admin sidebar that displays only
   when editing an entry of that CPT
 * Added option to include CPT entries within the Hierarchy. Added option to omit
   a CPT from the Hierarchy entirely.
 * CPT with a rewrite slug that matches an existing Page will respect that relationship
   and be inserted as a child of that Page
 * Posts Page is now placed properly when a custom permalink front has been put 
   in place

#### 0.1

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.5.1**
 *  Last updated ** 4 сол ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.9.0**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hierarchy/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/hierarchy/),
   and [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/hierarchy/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hierarchy)
 * Tags
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   [url](https://tg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/url/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://tg.wordpress.org/plugins/hierarchy/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.7 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Jon Christopher ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jchristopher/)

## Support

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