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  mateolefort · Member · Jul 8, 2022 at 2:21 am

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  Hello support, I am trying to build a website and I would like to know if there is a way to have multiple sub-directories or directories since the site I am trying to build keeps student data for several students and each one should their own page, i.e. http://www.example.com/california/student1, http://www.example.com/california/student2, http://www.example.com/texas/student1, http://www.example.com/texas/student2 and so on. Is this possible? or is there a plugin that can achieve this?

  Any support would be greatly appreciated. :)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 8, 2022 at 7:16 am

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  Hi there,

  Can you share the URL of the site you’re working on? We need to know that, because some aspects of the answer will different depending on whether you’re using a site hosted here with us on WordPress.com, or whether you’re using the open source version of WordPress at another host.

  In general, you create a directory on a WordPress site by creating a page. In other words, if you publish a page titled “About”, that page will live at the directory, example.com/about on the site.

  You create subdirectories by creating a page hierarchy. For example, let’s say you create a contact page as well, but you want it to be at example.com/about/contact, in the page editor, while creating the Contact page, you’ll assign the About page as its parent.

  If you’re specifically building the site to function as an online database/directory, you can do it by manually creating pages like this, but that’s not feasible if we’re speaking of a lot of data. In that case you’ll want a directory/database plugin instead, that will handle creating these pages for you dynamically based on data you input in a form/spreadsheet instead.

  For advice on specific plugins that can do that, please ask the WordPress.org community in their forums at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/. Those are the people who make the open source WordPress software and plugins for that software, so are better able to make those types of recommendations.