Multiple Parent Pages For One Page
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Instead of having to duplicate a page, can I direct one page to multiple parent pages (similar to how a blog post can be organized into multiple categories)?
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Howdy!
You can definitely set the same parent page for multiple child pages as described here:
Is that what you’re looking for? If not, please describe a bit more about what you’re looking to do, and I’ll be happy to provide more information!
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Hey!
Actually, my question was asking if I could have one page (for example: a “Green Smoothie” [Recipe]) have multiple parent pages (for example: “All Recipes”, “Breakfast” [Recipes], and “Smoothies” without having to, instead, copy the page 3 times and have each page be be nestled under it’s own parent page.
Thank you for your time!
Sincerely,
Morgan -
Actually, for example on my 360 page, I would take one hike (and create it as a page so that it can be organized in a grid format) and direct many parent pages to it, so that hikers can search for a hike based on what they are looking for (AKA a beach hike, an easy hike, a long hike, etc.).
So I would take the page “Hilaan Beach and Lost Pond” and nestle it under the parent pages: “Easy” [under “Difficulty”], “3 Hour” [under “Length”], “Tumon” [under “Village”], and so forth.
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Thanks for the detailed example! Now, I understand a bit more. So, the best way to do this would be to use categories for the various attributes (length, difficulty, etc). Then, you could setup category pages to filter out the hikes by “3 Hour” or “Easy” for example:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
So, for instance, if you had the “Hilaan Beach and Lost Pond” hike, it would appear under the category pages for “3 Hour”, “Easy”, etc provided you tagged it with those categories. Does that make sense?
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Your suggestion would mean my hikes would still be in blog post format which is not how I want them to be presented. A blog post cannot be neatly shown as just an image and title the way a page can be shown that way on a grouping page in grid format.
For example, look at my “All Hikes” page versus my Region -> “Central West Coast” page. See how if I add more pages to “All Hikes” it will be in a nice, neat, organized format where you can easily look through the hikes? When I add more hikes to “Central West Coast” people will have to scroll through each blog post to see all the other hikes.
My question is: Can I direct multiple *parent pages* to a single *page* so that I don’t have to have multiple copies of the same page scattered over my website (so that comments and “like”s can be concentrated on the one and only copy)?
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I have an idea. Maybe instead of copying a page to add it to a second category [page], I could somehow create an image and title (that looks exactly how a page would be displayed on another page in grid format, and could blend in with the rest of the directly correlating page previews) that, when clicked on, takes you to the page (that already has a parent page). I could link a page address to the image and title (similarly to what one can do with an image widget), so it would essentially be the same thing as linking another parent page to it, html-wise.
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Howdy!
Your suggestion would mean my hikes would still be in blog post format which is not how I want them to be presented. A blog post cannot be neatly shown as just an image and title the way a page can be shown that way on a grouping page in grid format.
For example, look at my “All Hikes” page versus my Region -> “Central West Coast” page. See how if I add more pages to “All Hikes” it will be in a nice, neat, organized format where you can easily look through the hikes? When I add more hikes to “Central West Coast” people will have to scroll through each blog post to see all the other hikes.
Now, I understand a bit more. I apologize for the confusion. You’re correct – it is not possible to set multiple parent pages for one page. So, you couldn’t set multiple grid pages up and then assign child child pages to select grid pages. The Motif theme is designed to have one parent grid page per child page.
I have an idea. Maybe instead of copying a page to add it to a second category [page], I could somehow create an image and title (that looks exactly how a page would be displayed on another page in grid format, and could blend in with the rest of the directly correlating page previews) that, when clicked on, takes you to the page (that already has a parent page). I could link a page address to the image and title (similarly to what one can do with an image widget), so it would essentially be the same thing as linking another parent page to it, html-wise.
Does that make sense?So, the goal here is to avoid having to recreate a hike page multiple times in an attempt to associate it with multiple parent pages (and thus multiple categories). I definitely don’t want you to have to duplicate each page when you create it. This also would create ugly URLs as the hikes would have “-2” and “-3” added to the URL for the second and third pages respectively.
The solution you mention could be possible, but it would be rather cumbersome. Honestly, I’m not sure that the Motif theme and the grid page is going to be able to accomplish what you’re looking for. Instead, I would probably encourage you to think about switching to a theme like The Style:
https://wordpress.com/themes/thestyle
The benefit here is that the theme uses posts instead of pages, still in a grid-like fashion. The benefit there is that the posts can be organized by category and tag, which will make the setup you’re looking for much easier. For example, here’s a category page (titled “Architecture” in the example):
http://thestyledemo.wordpress.com/category/architecture/
In your case, that could be “Central West Coast” or something similar. Would that work for what you’re looking for?
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