This plugin hasnt been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Allow draft, private, scheduled, and password-protected pages to be selected as parents in page dropdowns. Private and password-protected pages may also be added to menus and the Pages widget.
Screenshots
The page parent dropdown with pending, private, and future pages included
The navigation menu screen with private and password-protected pages included
Causes a fatal error on the Customize page. Pull request opened for the (very simple) fix on GitHub months and months ago, still hasn’t been merged. Seems completely abandoned.
Works as described and highly appreciated!
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /wp-content/plugins/inclusive-parents/inclusive-parents.php on line 94
Please do not install this plugin. It does not work at all (see support threads.) If you do not heed my warning and you activate the plugin, you will have to FTP to your plugins folder and delete the folder to regain access to your wp-admin.
This plugin does exactly what it says. It includes private, draft, and password-protected pages in the menu dropdown. It keeps the site menu organized and makes it easier for content editors. I was surprised this functionality isn’t built into WP.
We wanted our permalinks to include the parent page in the URL for a private section of the site and the default WordPress behavior wasn’t allowing this.
Thank you for writing this plugin!