Nested Pages

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278 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 238 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Crossed into this band 10 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ bwolner

   5mo ago

   This plugin is great at helping me organize my pages in a hierarchical fashion. But one thing is missing. The publication date of the pages. I would like to sort the sub-pages by the pub date and I have to refer to the default pages to see it. If you could add that, it would be 5 starts. This topic was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by bwolner.

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2. ★★★★★ amwporg

   1.0y ago

   I tried using the Nested Pages to clean up the management of my pages a bit. I didn’t realize it was going to change the links of literally all my pages, break my Ultimate Member plugin, and overall just cause absolute chaos. And disabling the plugin doesn’t revert these changes. Very disappointing. Nice UI, but you have a complicated site with sensitive linking, this is scary.

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3. ★★★★★ flexjoly

   1.5y ago

   I do like this plugin, although it misses pagination. But the main reason that I cannot use it, is that I have organized my menu with #admin-menu-editor. And nested-pages really cannot work with it. I posted an issue about this in github weeks ago…. but it not very active there :-(. If it would just generate the links well even with another menu-editor, I would give it at least 4 stars. 5 stars when pagination is added.

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4. ★★★★★ rjfnz

   1.7y ago

   Great little plugin. Brought my page management list down from 5 pages to just one, by using submenus. I highly recommend. I am not a power user, so a plugin that is simple to install, simple to understand, and that does exactly what is needed gets my 5 stars (6 if I could give them actually).

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5. ★★★★★ Magicyoyo

   2.2y ago

   I have a wordpress with hundreds of pages and subpages. So much better than vanilla page listing

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6. ★★★★★ ckrauter

   2.4y ago

   Does exactly what it says and is 1000x better than the original wordpress page manage. PLUS the plugin is free, what else could you ask for?? This topic was modified 2 years ago by ckrauter.

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7. ★★★★★ virtualink

   2.7y ago

   Nice tool, however, it disrupted my page slugs (404 errors) when associated with copies and clones in particular, and then other pages. I removed the copy/clone plugins first, no joy. When I removed the Nested Pages plugin all my slugs started working again. There’s some evidence this could have been associated with the clone plugins, however, the 404s occurred also with pages that I had organized with Nested Pages and were not associated with copies.

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8. ★★★★★ abitofmind

   3.2y ago

   ✅ Nesting/ordering is way faster than with the core UI ✅ ✅ Enables a completely different publishing workflow than possible with core: One can create pages in bulk as drafts and create a corresponding menu structure for those unpublished pages. One can “sketch out how the website eventually shall be” and then gradually fill up content, and when publishing multiple pages at once (via Bulk Edit), they will have their prepared menu position right at publication. Great workflow improvement! ❌ ❌ No reaction in support forums to any user bug reports, proposal since 2022-11. Seems abandoned or on very low maintenance. Newest reaction to any user comment that I could find was from 2022-11-03. This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by abitofmind. This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by abitofmind.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.2.14 Tested with WordPress 7 Security update – Thanks to Meher Sudhakar Abbireddi for reporting 3.2.14
2. — Version 3.2.13 Security update addressing XSS code vulnerability 3.2.13
3. — Version 3.2.12 Security update addressing XSS code vulnerability 3.2.12
4. — Version 3.2.11 Security update addressing XSS code vulnerability Addresses deprecation warnings in PHP 8.1 and later (Thanks to Misaki) Adds support for custom post type template selects (Thanks to anthonyivol) 3.2.11
5. — Version 3.2.10 Security update addressing XSS code vulnerability 3.2.10
6. — Version 3.2.9 Security update addressing XSS code vulnerability (Thanks to Artyom Krugov from CleanTalk and Animesh Gaurav from Automaticc) 3.2.9

All 12 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (3.3.3). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched High · 7.5 Nested Pages <= 3.3.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Object Injection ↗
   2026-09-30 CVE-2026-100512 Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affects <= 3.3.2 Patched in 3.3.3
2. Patched Medium · 4.4 Nested Pages <= 3.2.14 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2026-07-27 CVE-2026-15233 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.2.14 Patched in 3.2.15
3. Patched Medium · 4.4 Nested Pages <= 3.2.12 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-03-02 CVE-2025-0718 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.2.12 Patched in 3.2.13
4. Patched Medium · 4.4 Nested Pages <= 3.2.9 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-01-24 CVE-2025-24579 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.2.9 Patched in 3.2.10
5. Patched Medium · 4.4 Nested Pages <= 3.2.8 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-10-09 CVE-2024-8759 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.2.8 Patched in 3.2.9
6. Patched High · 8.8 Nested Pages <= 3.2.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Local File Inclusion ↗
   2024-07-03 CVE-2024-5943 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 3.2.7 Patched in 3.2.8
7. Patched Medium · 4.4 Nested Pages <= 3.2.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2023-12-01 CVE-2023-49195 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.2.6 Patched in 3.2.7
8. Patched Low · 3.8 Nested Pages <= 3.2.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Editor+) Plugin Settings Reset ↗
   2023-05-30 CVE-2023-2434 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.2.3 Patched in 3.2.4
9. Patched Medium · 4.8 Nested Pages <= 3.1.20 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2022-06-06 CVE-2022-1990 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects < 3.1.21 Patched in 3.1.21
10. Patched Medium · 4.7 Nested Pages <= 3.1.15 - Open Redirect ↗
    2021-08-25 CVE-2021-38343 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site Affects <= 3.1.15 Patched in 3.1.16
11. Patched High · 8.1 Nested Pages <= 3.1.15 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Post Deletion and Modification ↗
    2021-08-25 CVE-2021-38342 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 3.1.15 Patched in 3.1.16
12. Patched Medium · 6.4 Nested Pages <= 3.0.7 - Missing Authorization ↗
    2019-03-26 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.0.7 Patched in 3.0.8

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.2

Translated into 73 languages, 13 at 90% or more

Plus 49 more locales with partial translations.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-01-12 100K+ → 90K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-01-11 90K+ → 100K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2026-01-09 100K+ → 90K+ down after 16 days in tier
4. 2025-12-24 90K+ → 100K+ up after 389 days in tier
5. 2024-11-30 100K+ → 90K+ down after 312 days in tier
6. 2024-01-23 90K+ → 100K+ up after 17 days in tier
7. 2024-01-06 100K+ → 90K+ down after 108 days in tier
8. 2023-09-20 90K+ → 100K+ up after 118 days in tier

Competes with

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Nested Pages: 90K+ active installs, 4.7★ (126 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-nested-pages