CraftyWebbies Pillar & Cluster Manager Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
CraftyWebbies Pillar & Cluster Manager brings a clean, structured way to manage your blog content directly inside the WordPress admin. Instead of a flat list of posts, you can organise every article into a topic hierarchy:
- Pillar post — the comprehensive, authoritative guide on a broad topic.
- Cluster posts — focused articles that go deep on a specific sub-topic and link back to the pillar.
This structure is recommended by SEO experts because it signals topical authority to search engines and creates a better reading experience for your audience.
Features
- Meta box on every post — tick a checkbox to mark a post as a Pillar, or select its parent Pillar from a dropdown to make it a Cluster.
- “Pillar Posts” submenu under Posts — a dedicated view that shows only your pillar content.
- Custom admin column on the Posts list — shows a PILLAR or CLUSTER badge, cluster count with a one-click filter, or the parent pillar name.
- Filter dropdown — quickly filter the Posts list to see all clusters for any pillar.
- REST API support — all meta fields are exposed via the REST API. A virtual
_cwpcm_pillar_urlfield lets you link a cluster by passing the pillar’s URL instead of its ID. - Template helper functions —
cwpcm_get_cluster_posts(),cwpcm_get_pillar_post(),cwpcm_is_pillar(),cwpcm_is_cluster(), andcwpcm_get_all_pillars()for use in your theme templates. - Translation-ready — fully internationalised with a
craftywebbies-pillar-cluster-managertext domain.
Template Helpers
Use these functions in your theme templates:
cwpcm_is_pillar( get_the_ID() ) — returns true if the current post is a Pillar.
cwpcm_is_cluster( get_the_ID() ) — returns true if the current post is a Cluster.
cwpcm_get_pillar_post( get_the_ID() ) — returns the parent WP_Post pillar object for a cluster.
cwpcm_get_cluster_posts( get_the_ID() ) — returns an array of published cluster WP_Post objects for a pillar.
cwpcm_get_all_pillars() — returns all published pillar posts.
Credits
Developed by Kartik Jain.
Screenshots
The Pillar / Cluster meta box in the post sidebar.
Custom column on the Posts list showing Pillar and Cluster badges.
The Pillar Posts submenu under Posts.
The filter dropdown to view clusters of a specific pillar.
