Create subpage - filter parent pages list

Question

I have a website here with a lot of content and with the content where is necessary to create pages in hierarchy. But it is uncomfortable to go through the dropdown in the administration with a lot of pages. So my point is - in the admin at the moment i create/edit page and need to select the parent page from the list, I want to somehow filter or limit or search the list of possible parent pages. Thank you!

Answer 1

If you are using wp_dropdown_pages, then use the argument exclude_tree to exclude a parent and all of that parent's child Pages. See here for an explanation of all arguments : http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_dropdown_pages

Answer 2

Not sure if this will help, but I have used the code on the following page to add a parent page filter to the list of pages:

http://www.finalwebsites.com/blog/wordpress/add-a-parent-pages-filter-function-your-wordpress-admin-section/

Very handy if you have a parent page for each section.

There is just one problem - it only returns the children not grandchildren etc. I am just now trying to figure out how to get it to return results at all depths.

Parent page filter to show children at all depths