Can I add sub pages to a gallery page in WordPress.com?
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I have added 2 sub category image pages to my gallery page but they are not showing up in any menu form. I went to page attributes and placed sub pages under the gallery page but when I go to the gallery page I cannot see any sub page menu. Is this possible in WordPress.com or not?
Is it because of the theme I have chosen?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi,
“Is this possible in WordPress.com or not?”
Yes.
“Is it because of the theme I have chosen?”
Yes.I believe Independent Publisher can only display a custom menu, and not a default pages menu. On most themes that have the latter, child pages will automatically display in the menu. With a custom menu, regardless of the theme applied, you have to add each menu item manually. See the Adding Pages and Changing the Order & Creating Sub-Menus sections of the Custom Menus support page.
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Hi and thanks.
Please clarify further. Are you saying that I should choose another theme that allows me to have child or sub pages? How will I know without a theme change if it allows this?
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Are you saying that I should choose another theme that allows me to have child or sub pages?
No. Many themes will display a default menu that links only to published pages. Such themes automatically add a menu item when you publish a new page, though child pages may or may not appear as sub-menu links (for example, in a drop-down sub-menu under the parent menu item).
Independent Publisher is one of the themes that doesn’t display a default menu. So, in order to display a menu with this theme, you must have an activated custom menu. It’s easy to be unaware of this if a theme comes with a custom menu at the time of creation. Since your site is displaying a custom menu, and can not display a default pages menu, each new menu item must be manually added as described in the Custom Menus support page. See particularly the sections of the support page I linked to in my previous post.
How will I know without a theme change if it allows this?
Child pages may be created and published on any theme. Links to them may be added to a menu on any theme. The difference is in regard to whether a theme displays links to pages automatically or not. I don’t know if there’s any way to tell for certain if a theme will do this or not without activating it first.
You may add a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of this topic to call for staff attention if you’d like to run that last question by staff.
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Correction:
Change “The difference is in regard to whether a theme displays links to pages automatically or not” to “The key question is whether a theme displays links to pages automatically or not.”
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Correction 2:
“The key question is whether a theme displays links to pages automatically in a default menu or not.” It can only do so if it has a default menu. -
I have tried different themes and every time I try to select Custom Menu/Themes Menus/ as your post suggested my screen crashes to a blue screen and warnings re error code and proxy servers whatever that means. It seems I cannot make the adjustments I want to and getting frustrated with the whole thing! I really thought with WordPress it would be more simple. I seem to be going round in circles! Sorry …. but it’s been a bad day!
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Hello there, Are you still using the desktop app to manage your site? As Staff mentioned in your other thread, there appears to be an issue that the developers are aware of. I realize that this doesn’t make it any less frustrating. I’ve tagged this for Staff advice.
For the meantime, until the issue with the app is resolved, you may wish to access your WordPressdotcom website directly in a browser instead.
As @musicdoc1 mentioned, you should be able to create and use a Custom menu on Publish, which is the theme I see on your above site now.
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One other thought, you could also use Pagination on your Gallery page to display each Gallery on its own “page”. You would insert a separate Gallery between the “Next Page” link.
Here’s more on pagination: https://en.support.wordpress.com/nextpage/
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Hi –
The report that justjennifer mentioned is still being looked at. Can you try working on the site from a web browser instead and see if you are able to set up the child pages that way.
You may have success with removing and reinstalling the app. It will be helpful to know which version you’re using?
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Desktop Version 2.3.0
I have already uninstalled and reinstalled once before so I don’t think that will remedy the issue.
I will now test the theory of using the web browser now as you suggest and delete the desktop app so there is no conflict. Will post back.
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I have now used the web based app and has not crashed so thank you for that.
However I am still struggling to add child or sub pages. Can anyone please help me by posting a simple A B C guide for me to be able to add these additional sub pages to my gallery page. I have tried to follow the help files but keep getting lost as it all seems different to mine! Once I have mastered this then hopefully I can proceed to develop my site accordingly.
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Hi again, I’ve looked at the Publish theme on my test site, which is the theme you are now using on your site, and it seems that sub/child-pages are not displayed in the navigation sidebar even if using a Custom menu.
If you have your heart set on using the Publish theme, I come back to my earlier suggestion of using Pagination to display “sub-pages” in your Gallery. What this does is provide a numerical link at the bottom of each “page” to the next page, but without any indication of what is displayed on that page.
Alternately, you could insert the List Pages shortcode at the top of your Gallery page to display links to those sub/child-pages: https://en.support.wordpress.com/list-pages-shortcode/ The shortcode
[child-pages]displays the title of each child page and will automatically update when you add more child pages.If you are open to looking for photography themes that also display a drop-down menu, you are welcome to post in the Themes forum for assistance: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/themes#postform
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However I am still struggling to add child or sub pages.
I think you mean that you’re struggling to add sub-menu items to your menu that link to child pages, because in the first sentence of the OP you said, “I have added 2 sub category image pages to my gallery page but they are not showing up in any menu form.”
every time I try to select Custom Menu/Themes Menus/ as your post suggested my screen crashes to a blue screen
I haven’t suggested that you do that. In fact, I wouldn’t know where to find “Custom Menu/Themes Menus.” Gladly, it isn’t necessary. What I said was:
With a custom menu, regardless of the theme applied, you have to add each menu item manually. See the Adding Pages and Changing the Order & Creating Sub-Menus sections of the Custom Menus support page.
and in a later post
Since your site is displaying a custom menu, and can not display a default pages menu, each new menu item must be manually added as described in the Custom Menus support page.
The section of the Custom Menus support page that describes how to add sub-menu items to the a custom menu is Changing the Order & Creating Sub-Menus
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I have added 2 sub category image pages to my gallery page but they are not showing up in any menu form.
Can you provide here the address of one of those two pages?
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Hi doc- Unless I’ve overlooked something, the Publish theme only displays top-level pages in the navigation, not sub/child pages, not in a classic menu and not in a custom menu. I tested prior to answering.
I’ve also now tested with category pages as child pages and they do not display either.
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After a day of not thinking about it, the light bulb went on. You could also use either a Text Widget with the List Pages shortcode I mentioned above or a Custom Menu Widget to list links to those child pages in the sidebar under the regular navigation links. https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/custom-menu-widget/
Off-topic/One other thing I noted on your site is that while you are using a static front page and have published a “posts-page”, it seems your posts page is also a static page.
If you want to write and publish new posts and have them appear on that posts page, you’ll need to set that page as the Posts page in the Customizer.
Under the “Static Front Page’ section you’ll see the following:
Front page displays…
After you’ve chosen “A static page” you need to set in the drop down which page is the static front page and which page should display your posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
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Thanks. This is interesting! Do I understand correctly that I can install a clickable text widget that will show in the side menu as a sub menu item that can be opened independently? e.g. Egypt / India / Hong Kong that will enable the viewer to select any one from my gallery page in one click?
That is my aim to enable anyone to enter my site, open the gallery page and then see on the gallery (home) page all sub galleries of possible interest. I have included an example below formatted as I would like. Hope you understand.
Gallery
India
Egypt
Hong Kong
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