Request: Previous / Next Buttons for WP Admin

[trishahdee]

I emphatically request that WP add Previous and Next buttons in the WP Admin for all posts and custom post types. Over the years, a few plugins have done this, but all are now out-of-date or have security issues. Plugins like WooCommerce have this feature for product pages. It can’t be that hard to incorporate into the Core.

Most of the time I deal with it, but for the past few weeks I am in a place with terrible WiFi so page loading is slow. When I want to go from one CPT post to the next to tweak something, going back out to the main list of posts to click and open the next post is frustrating and a waste of time. When editing a post, if there were a “Next” or “Previous” button, I could just move on to the next post without taking the needless extra step of loading the main list. aaahhhh!!!

I find it hard to believe this isn’t already a standard WP feature. Please, Powers-That-Be, please prioritize adding this to WP Core.

[jorbin]

Hi @trishahdee, welcome to WordPress Trac.

This seems like something worth considering though the ​command palette already allows for easily switching from editing one post to any other rather than limiting to only moving linearly.

That said, as this is related to the editor screen, I think it would better requested in ​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/

[TobiasBg]

#63242 was marked as a duplicate.

[trishahdee]

Replying to jorbin:

Hi @trishahdee, welcome to WordPress Trac.

This seems like something worth considering though the ​command palette already allows for easily switching from editing one post to any other rather than limiting to only moving linearly.

That said, as this is related to the editor screen, I think it would better requested in ​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/

[trishahdee]

@jorbin I have never used GitHub to submit a Pull Request. I've been reading about how to do it, but I can't figure it out. Would it be possible for you to do it for me? Or explain, in detail, how I can do it?

[narenin]

Hi @trishahdee

You can check the instructions given on this link.

On this link details have been mentioned regarding "How to submit a Pull Request" .

​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/trunk/docs/contributors/code/getting-started-with-code-contribution.md

[trishahdee]

I can't find anything on that page about pull requests. I tried to do a pull request but it wants me to choose some sort of "trunk version" whatever that is. I don't know how to do any of that.

[benniledl]

Hey @trishahdee

I think what would be good for you is following workflow:

1. Open the post list
2. Open the post that you want to edit in a new tab/window
3. After editing the post close this tab
4. Now you're back to the post list that was still open in the background
5. Open the post that you want to edit in a new tab/window

Or even better, if you are using the default wordpress editor (gutenberg)
You can use the keyboard shortcut Cmd+k on Mac or Ctrl+k on Windows to open the command palette, then just type the post title of the desired post and click enter, now you are editing this post.