nested pages won’t show up
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I made a new page and added nested page(s) to it. The nested pages won’t show up in a normal fashion.
I’ve read similar entries on here with people explaining you have to turn on the pages widget for the sidebar. Something is broken people! You shouldn’t have to turn on a widget that completely wipes out your blog side bar just to see pages that should be part of the blog or theme directly.
I’ve chosen several themes and it isn’t a theme problem apparently as they all have the same flaw, it looks like a WP flaw.
When I turn on the pages widget everything else goes away, the blog roll, my calendar, categories, archives, everything. This is ugly. Does anyone know what is really going wrong here or how it can actually be fixed without ruining the appearance of our blogs??
There are a lot of people all asking for the same help with the same flaw so I would hope someone is working on this?!
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Oh someone is going to ask for a link to my blog, but folks this flaw is being reported by lots of people.
my blog is siezethemoment.wordpress.com
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Well I changed to a theme which ‘appears’ to support viewing a nested page but when you click on the link for the title of the sub page? It goes to the parent page. Something is really out of whack with nested pages.
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And why no posts on a sub page?! That is just weird, why even have sub pages? They seem pretty much broken imho.
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– We always ask for a link to the blog: First because we get a lot of wrong visits, so we need to make sure it’s a wp.COM blog (our answers may not apply to wp.ORG blogs, and they’ve got their own separate forum). Second, because we often need to check things in the blog itself to find out what a problem is or which solution will do.
– Nothing is broken. Most themes come with a small preset of suggested (artificial) sidebar items. Once you add a widget yourself, you take over: the preset is cancelled, and you can add whatever widgets you want.
– Page hierarchies are not theme-dependent. The presentation might be different (e.g. bullets or no bullets, indentation, etc.).
– What do you mean by “no posts on a sub page”?
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Re your last post (and my question), now that I’ve checked your blog: For your “Programming and other Geekness” you used the original “About” page of the theme, just renaming it. But its permalink is still “about”, and remains so for the subpage: that’s why the subpage links to the parent page. What you should have done is change the permalink as well, or -simpler- avoid messing with it, just delete it and create a new one.
(Now you see why we need the link to the blog: I couldn’t have GUESSED what you’ve done with your pages.)
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This is interesting, thank you. I’m learning, yes it is possible :)
I’ll take another try at creating pages and sub pages thank you (deleting and starting over).
As far as no posts on sub pages someone else mentioned it and it bothers me too. A sub page is kind of like a one time deal. Even though it’s part of what is assumed to be a dynamic blog environment. Meaning, if you create a page and put something on it like you do your main page….that’s it. You don’t get to have a sub page with a theme and running posts with updates or more information in separate posts. You have to re-write the static page in it’s entirety. Why in the world don’t your sub pages act like a blog also?? Or at least have the option to make them static HTML pages *or* blog pages?
That’s a stumper for me.
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Think of your pages like being reference books. Their child pages are like chapters. Child pages of child pages are like sections within the chapters. and so on until this analogy fails…
You have only one dynamic page for writing posts.
Your posts are the “guide” to all the static information in your pages.You can organize your posts by using categories. When a reader chooses a category, a page listing all the posts in that category appears and the reader can choose which one to read.
(The category pages do not appear in navigation: only when they are needed—that is when someone selects a category.)
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I’m having a similar (the same?) problem — thebookcorner.wordpress.com
I can add as many pages as I want (home, about, about us, etc) — but when I try to nest pages under “about us,” they don’t appear. As in, I am unable to click on About Us, and see any links to the child pages.
I’m kind of new to wordpress, so I’m sure its a user error — help!!
thanks :)
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Child pages won’t show in the navigation bar of your blog; you’ll see only the parent page tabs for moving around your blog.
You need a page widget in your sidebar.
Or you can manually place text or image links to child pages on their parent pages. -
I’m trying to create a child page (‘2008’) that is linked to only from the body of this static page: http://jwalange.wordpress.com/newsletter/
When I click on ‘2008’, it takes me to the URL http://jwalange.wordpress.com/newsletter/2008/ (correct)
….but the content that shows up is exactly the same as http://jwalange.wordpress.com/newsletter/ (incorrect)
What’s the deal?
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The deal is you cannot have a number alone as the last part of the permalink, because numbers (as well as some words, e.g. “next”) serve other purposes. You can have “2008” as the name displayed in the sidebar, if that’s what you want, but the permalink has to be more than that. Go to the page editor, click the “Edit” button you can see after the permalink (below the title box), change 2008 into something else (e.g. “2008subpage”), click Save, click Update Page.
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