WordPress Child Page tools

overview

A WordPress plugin exposing 3 Gutenberg blocks

• Next / Previous sibling page links
• Progress indicator block ( x/y to monitor position amongst siblings)
• parent page title block

All calculations of the current page (for progress) and next / prev pages are based on finding an array of 'sibling' pages (ie those sharing a common parent), sorted by menu order, and determining the next / prev page to link to. This means you can use a plugin like Simple Page Ordering to arrange pages in a menu order, and then use that order to navigate between then

Sibling resolution rules

• If the current page has a parent, siblings = all child pages of that parent (parent page itself is excluded).
• If the current page is top-level (no parent), siblings = all other top-level pages.
• Siblings are sorted by menu_order ASC, then ID ASC as tiebreaker.
• If the current page is first or last in the sequence, the corresponding block hides (renders nothing).

Next prev block

UI options are

• Direction: (next / previous)
• Text
• Icon

Progress block

Progress is displayed as an x / y string with a configurable text template using {current} and {total} tokens. Default template: {current} / {total}.

This plugin was written by Qwen3.6-plus under my iterative prompting, testing and debugging (although the initial implementations were all quite good).