If your WordPress Blog has a lot of pages (not posts) it becomes very hard to select them in the pages list (WordPress back-end). A select menu with all the parent (top) pages would be a great and useful filter function (like the categories filter in the posts section).
Check this comment for a modified function which is able to filter grouped products in WooCommerce.
The function below will add the select menu with the parent pages as a filter:
function fws_admin_posts_filter( $query ) { global $pagenow; if ( is_admin() && $pagenow == 'edit.php' && !empty($_GET['my_parent_pages'])) { $query->query_vars['post_parent'] = $_GET['my_parent_pages']; } } add_filter( 'parse_query', 'fws_admin_posts_filter' ); function admin_page_filter_parentpages() { global $wpdb; if (isset($_GET['post_type']) && $_GET['post_type'] == 'page') { $sql = "SELECT ID, post_title FROM ".$wpdb->posts." WHERE post_type = 'page' AND post_parent = 0 AND post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY post_title"; $parent_pages = $wpdb->get_results($sql, OBJECT_K); $select = ' <select name="my_parent_pages"> <option value="">Parent Pages</option>'; $current = isset($_GET['my_parent_pages']) ? $_GET['my_parent_pages'] : ''; foreach ($parent_pages as $page) { $select .= sprintf(' <option value="%s"%s>%s</option>', $page->ID, $page->ID == $current ? ' selected="selected"' : '', $page->post_title); } $select .= ' </select>'; echo $select; } else { return; } } add_action( 'restrict_manage_posts', 'admin_page_filter_parentpages' );
How-to use this PHP code
Open the file named “functions.php” which is inside your themes directory and copy the code into this file and re-visit the pages section.
This function as based on some code I found at WP-Snippets.
Tip! If you need more or better filter options, try Admin Columns. You need to buy the PRO version to use all features, but it’s worth any penny!