Can’t create link on a Parent Page
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I have the child page all ready to go. I have read and reread the “how to link” FAQ – for 3 hours now. I have tried and retried creating a URL and I still cannot get the child link to appear on my Parent Page.
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Please give us a link to your blog. Is it hosted here on wordpress.com?
What have you done to create the link, exactly? Are you using the visual editor or the code editor? Can you post the code here (between backticks, the key above your tab button on the keyboard)?
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Sorry about not posting the site. I am very new to this type of thing, but I can learn if the instructions are very clear. The site is: leatriceasher.wordpress.com
If you go to my site and click on “published articles” you will see that is where I am trying to create the “child” pages. In other words, I want to put the published articles in that page heading. I allready have the published articles ready in the proper parent page. I cannot get them to appear there.
Right now, you see only the title of one of the articles, but prior to trying that, I followed the instructions on how to link and created this URL:
I also tried this putting wordpress after .com and then the symbols to close.
I also tried many variations of the first URL, no www, etc.
I must be way off base with what I’m trying to do because I keep getting the message (when I then view the site) that the URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.
Do I even need a URL? Can a title alone be used to access the link?
Thank you so much for any help you can offer!
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Here it is again (the URL) – between backticks:
<a href="http://Pain-Bane of Our Life or Catalyst for Transformation? PartI.com"></a> -
What you want to do is this, right?
Pain-Bane of Our Life or Catalyst for Transformation? Part IThis is the code for it.
<a href="http://leatriceasher.wordpress.com/article/">Pain-Bane of Our Life or Catalyst for Transformation? Part I</a>I think the problem you’re having is that you might not be using the right link in the editor; the one you put between backticks still comes up with an error. You need to be on the page you want to link to and copy it directly from your address bar; just a simple Ctrl C will do it. That’s the address you want to use.
As to how you create the link above, I’ll try to do a straight-forward explanation. Write the name of your article first, in this case we’ll call it Pain-Bane of Our Life. Then select it and click the small link icon in your editor, it looks like chains. In the new window you copy the link you just got from the address bar. Click update and you’re done. You should end up with Pain-Bane of Our Life.
Hope that helps. If that isn’t what you meant, I’m sorry, I’m probably just a bit confused. :)
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I very much appreciate your input, but I must be very dense. I’ve been trying to do exactly what you wrote but it is just not translating.
Thanks anyway
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Try this. You have your parent page and you know the title of that page. So far , so good.
Write your child page and then look to the left of what you have written. There is a blue bar titled “Page Parent”. Click on that bar and then select the title of your parent page from the drop down menu.
That should put the child under its parent for you.
Hope this helps. -
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Hi exilefiles,
Actually, I already had that part in place – the page parent listed on the child’s page, but that doesn’t put the child on the parent page.
Everyone is trying to help and I still am not seeing a way to achieve this. I’m sorry to be taking up so much time and now wonder if I need a more elementary site to belong to than wordpress. I’ll try one more time:
When CJwriter says I need to be on the page I want to link to doesn’t this mean the child page? If yes, I am going to that page, it is already written. Then CJ says “copy” the address bar, does this mean of the child page? If yes, that is what I did. Where then do I paste this copied address? Also, it is not in the format suggested in the FAQ, which is this: Pain-Bane of Our Life or Catalyst for Transformation? Part I So… where does this address come into play? You see how confused I am? :-)
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Oops again, I forgot the bactacs. Here it is again with them:
<a href="http://leatriceasher.wordpress.com/article/">Pain-Bane of Our Life or Catalyst for Transformation? Part I</a> -
OK, leatriceasher,
maybe we need to start over :)
What is the URL of the parent page?
What is the URL of the child page?The link to the child page on the parent page should look like this:
<a href="http://URL of child page">Child Page</a>To make the child page a child, go to Manage->Pages->Edit (for the child page)->Page Parent
Does this help?
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Judy,
Answering your questions:
The URL of parent page is:
http://leatriceasher.wordpress.com/published-articles/The URL of Child page is:
http://leatriceasher.wordpress.com/wp-admin/page.php?action=edit&post=26I copied these addresses from the address bar of Mozilla Firefox. Right?
I can go to manage/pages/edit but what EXACTLY am I putting where?
Thanks again, I am just becoming very discouraged :-(
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The Child URL you have posted is incorrect. You have copied the URL of your Edit page, which we can’t get to (it being part of the administration of your blog). What is the Child page’s URL (it should look a lot like the parent page URL – none of that wp-admin and php stuff)?
Copy and paste this code into the Code Editor screen of the Parent Page under Manage->Pages->Edit (for the Parent Page):
<a href="http://URL of child page">Child Page</a>
Replacing http://URL of child page with the real URL and Child Page with the title of the page. Save changes.Then, go to Manage->Pages->Edit (for the child page)->Page Parent and select the Parent page as the parent from the dropdown box. Save changes.
Don’t be discouraged. I think you’re almost there :)
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Judy,
Here is the child page: http://leatriceasher.wordpress.com/published-articles/pain-part-i/
just replying to your request above.
Now I will see what I can do with the rest of your message. Sigh!
You have great patience.
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Ha ha. Tell my mother that; she would never believe it :-D
Okay, so your HTML for the parent page (in the code editor) should look something like this:
<a href="http://leatriceasher.wordpress.com/published-articles/pain-part-i/">Pain Part I</a> -
Make sure you click on Code when you have the edit screen open to paste the HTML (it’s right next to the tab that says Visual).
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