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Is a Parent Page good for adding a fixed feature? For instance, I want to put a Glossary of Terms in one fixed position.
Thanks.
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Hi,
You may use a parent page as you like, but it’s my opinion that a parent page is best used as a kind of index or directory to the child pages. It may also serve to introduce a category. For example, the parent page “Sports” might include both an introduction to this broad spectrum of athletic endeavor, and an index (link list) to the child pages “Football,” “Soccer,” “Track & Field,” Tiddlywinks On Ice,” etc.
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Hmm. From what you’re saying a Glossary of Terms may not fit here but what else could I do? This seems to be the best ‘fix’.
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From what you’re saying a Glossary of Terms may not fit here
Not necessarily. A “Parent Page” has children, correct? Or maybe you’ve used this term to mean something else. If there are to be child pages, then ordinarily there would be more than one child page. Not always, but child pages can be a way of breaking up something large into smaller pieces. For example, you could have the following child pages of the Glossary:
Alexithymia-Exegesis
Facture-Insight Art
Mystical-Ontological
Paradolia/Plato’s Cave-Religion
Sanctification-YugenOr something like that. You might also want to consider using NextPage tags to break up a long page such as this. I know it’s a post now, but it sounds like you want to make it a page instead. See the NextPage (Pagination) support page.
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See also the Set a Static “Home” Page (Front Page) support page, if you plan to keep the glossary on the front page.
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Thanks musicdoc1, you’ve given me some useful ideas.
I think it would be off-putting to have a glossary as a front page.
If it were possible, I would make it a page so that people could refer back to it and know where to find it. Your idea sounds good. I’ll chase up the NextPage (Pagination) too.
I guess, if it were possible, I would refer to the glossary every time I used a technical word. I am simplifying a very complex subject !
It’s late here, so I’ll have a go in the morning. Thanks!
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You’re welcome.
I think it would be off-putting to have a glossary as a front page.
Agreed.
If it were possible, I would make it a page so that people could refer back to it and know where to find it.
See the Create a New Page section of the Pages support page. You can copy and paste the content of the post “Glossary” into the page content.
I guess, if it were possible, I would refer to the glossary every time I used a technical word. I am simplifying a very complex subject !
Next, you’ll want to add a link to the page to a custom menu. Twenty Fifteen theme does not display a default pages menu, so you’ll need to use a custom menu. There is a default custom menu on Twenty Fifteen when a new site is created. You may use that one, if it’s still present, or create a new one. See the Custom Menus support page.
The custom menu on the Twenty Fifteen theme displays in the sidebar. Sub-menu items will be hidden, by default. The viewer can display them by clicking on the down arrow beside the parent menu item, as can be seen with the “A Parent Page” menu item and its drop-down list of sub-menu items (child pages in this case) on the Twenty Fifteen demo.
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You know, the quickest ‘fix’ would be to do what you said – ” You can copy and paste the content of the post “Glossary” into the page content.” YES!
Thanks for your help.
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The list of titles has disappeared from the left hand side.
I saw nothing in the sidebar when I visited the site earlier today. Was wondering about that. I don’t recall seeing anything there last night either. Was the list in a widget or a custom menu?
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It disappeared when I changed over to the 2015 : – “Join our early notification list to give yourself the best chance of snagging the domain of your dreams.
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I was thinking of putting the Glossary as the first post by deleting the earliest one and replacing it; that’s when I noticed that there were no titles!
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I don’t know what that’s about. Twenty Fifteen is a free theme, available to every WordPress.com member, and it must have been new almost two years ago. Twenty Sixteen came out last December.
Custom menu, if I remember rightly.
Menus and widgets often need to be reassigned after a theme switch. See the Switch Themes section of the Themes support page, particularly the following two parts:
Custom Menus
You’ll want to reassign your Custom Menus to the locations you want them in the new theme. Each theme supports different locations, depending on the theme.Widgets
You’ll want to place your Widgets in the proper Widget locations. Like Custom Menus, each theme supports different locations, depending on the theme. -
Oh dear! It looks like a lot of work for something that I didn’t need.
Thanks again for your explanations.
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I’m in more of a mess now than when I first started. When I save a page it won’t publish. Why on earth did someone offer 2015 as if it was a new upgrade!
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I’m in more of a mess now than when I first started. When I save a page it won’t publish.
I see the link to you new “Glossary” page, https://standing2016.wordpress.com/glossary-of-terms/, in the sidebar.
Why on earth did someone offer 2015 as if it was a new upgrade!
I don’t know. It might have been an old advertisement, or a more recent ad for an upgraded version for WordPress.org sites. The Twenty Fifteen theme guide and download page for WordPress.org indicates that it was last updated on August 15, 2016. However, that theme couldn’t be applied to a WordPress.com site.
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