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A Silverstripe BuildTask that provides a visual interface for testing all page types in your site. Useful for verifying pages work correctly after upgrades or major changes.

Features

Lists all page types with CMS edit and frontend links
Automatically checks HTTP status codes for all links
Shows page count per type (live + draft) sorted by count
Handles ErrorPage correctly (expects 404/500)
Visual status indicators (✓ pass / ✗ fail)
Click status badges to re-check individual links
Detects and tests controller $allowed_actions
Detects forms on pages (flags for manual testing)
"Open All" buttons to open CMS or frontend links in new tabs
Optional page preview thumbnails
Randomise selected pages for broader testing
Progress indicator with stop functionality
Prioritises live pages over draft pages
Responsive design for narrower screens
Works in both browser and CLI

Requirements

Silverstripe 6.0+
PHP 8.1+

Installation

composer require purplespider/silverstripe-page-type-status-checker

Usage

Browser (Recommended)

Visit /dev/tasks/check-page-type-statuses in your browser while logged in as admin.

Click "Check Links & Actions" to check all links including controller actions, or "Check Links Only" for a faster check of just the main pages.

The task will display:

Page type names with counts (live + draft)
CMS edit form links with status codes
Frontend links with status codes
Controller actions with status codes (if $allowed_actions defined)
Form detection indicators
Example page titles and URLs

CLI

vendor/bin/sake tasks:check-page-type-statuses

The CLI output shows a simplified list of all page types with their CMS and frontend URLs.

License

BSD-3-Clause

purplespider / silverstripe-page-type-status-checker

Maintainers

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