Show Post/Page ID

[discobot]

This is now planned for CP 1.4.0

Bring back Post/Page/Media ID in Posts/Pages/Media list pages.

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Read-only archive: https://petitions.classicpress.net/posts/227/show-post-page-id

Author: Linas

Vote count: 12

Status: Completed

Status Update: This petition has a pull request on GitHub ~ @viktor

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Comments

What purpose does this serve?

~ posted by James Nylen

Surely you can just hover over the edit link of a post on the posts list page and the ID is shown in the link that the browser shows at the bottom of the screen?

~ posted by zigpress

User-friendly way to obtain Post ID. Searching in a URL is a workaround, and definitely not the most convenient way.

~ posted by Linas

This is reasonably easy to accomplish with a plugin: admin-id.php · GitHub

~ posted by Matt Robinson

It’s definitely beneficial for non-technical users. Countless times I had to explain to users how to find post ID, and they always say why can’t they just show it.

~ posted by Viktor Nagornyy

Responding to James: searching in a URL only works if you start with a specific post or page (though see below) and want to know the ID. But what if you start with an ID and want to know which post or page that is? That’s one use case for me. The other is when I want to check how posts are being ordered when I am using some code to reorder them.

Responding to Matt: that’s good, but it only covers posts and pages. There’s also taxonomies, users, comments, etc. The quick way to get all that functionality is currently to use the Reveal IDs plugin.

~ posted by KTS915

For some reason after almost 15 yrs of futzing around looking for IDs, I have have been struggling again recently, every where I hover I get the permalink!

~ posted by Sparkey

Yesterday I installed Matt Robinson’s free plugin and it adds the Post ID to the individual page lists. Very handy! Thank you Matt!

~ posted by TruthMatters

[viktor]

I voted for this idea before and doing it again. This is specifically important for non-technical users. Whenever doing some training and showing clients how to get an ID usually to be used in a shortcode or something else, they always say “why can’t they just show it here.”

It would be nice if an ID column would be added. Hidden by default and can be shown using the screen options panel. This would apply to all post types.

[james]

@viktor

It would be nice if an ID column would be added. Hidden by default and can be shown using the screen options panel. This would apply to all post types.

This sounds like a good and easy solution. No backwards compatibility implications so this could be added as soon as there is a PR for it.

[ozfiddler]

@discobot

Surely you can just hover over the edit link of a post on the posts list page and the ID is shown in the link that the browser shows at the bottom of the screen?

I recently found out that this doesn’t actually work on all browsers. I’ve always thought it would make sense for the ID to be shown in the table.

[anon98749105]

Why not go a little further and include menu order as well for Pages? That’s the one I need more than Post/Page IDs.

I like my Pages well-organized…

[viktor]

@anon98749105

Why not go a little further and include menu order as well for Pages?

If you’re referring to a column that hows menu order number, it would be best to open a new petition so others can vote on it. But for ordering pages, there is a petition for that.

[anon98749105]

It’s not that important to me… I don’t have many pages, so it’s manageable for now…

[alvarofranz]

@james

No backwards compatibility implications so this could be added as soon as there is a PR for it.

I sent you a pull request via GitHub. A very simple approach, just modified the WP_Posts_List_Table class a few lines.

Works on posts:

And pages:

And can be disabled via Screen Options:

[anon66243189]

Unrelated, and useless comment, but it is very nice to see commitment of this kind.
Very nice.

[wadestriebel]

Quick update, this is now planned for 1.4.0.

Thank you @alvarofranz for spearheading this and getting the PR

[james]

When a discussion or a change moves to different communication platforms it’s important to add links between all of those threads so that people can follow them later.

Here’s the PR for this change:

PR to show posts and pages id

[wadestriebel]

This is merged in and will go out with 1.4.0, closing this thread to free up votes

Track 1.4.0’s outstanding work here: Work towards Release 1.4.0