parent pages and subpages
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I’m trying to put subpages on the parent page The Gen X Question. It shows up on my edit/dashboard page, but not on the site. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
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http://mygenerationx.wordpress.com/about/obligatory-fin…n-guidelines-2obligatory-fine-print-and-submission-guidelines-2/ is the only subpage. The odd thing is that when I paste that URL into the address bar, I get an error page. But when I click on the actual link to this subpage, that’s the URL that shows up. ?? I’ve been playing with it all afternoon trying to get it to work, so I may have muddled something up…but the second column isn’t showing up, I can’t figure out how to delete the “Home” page tab, and I can’t figure out this subpage business.
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And where is your sidebar? Blix has no header page tabs, so you need to add the Pages widget. (Also note that even in themes with header tabs, only parent pages show up in the header.) If you don’t want a sidebar, the only thing you can do is get the URLs of the subpages and write links to them in the parent page itself.
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I did add the pages widget. I do want a sidebar; it just isn’t showing up for some reason. Can I write a link to the subpage in the sidebar if it ever appears?
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Ah now I notice! Try this and you’ll see your sidebar and everything:
http://mygenerationx.wordpress.com/posts
Your sidebar doesn’t show because you’ve set a static page as your front (Blix doesn’t display the sidebar in individual static pages). And you have no posts at the moment (after you deleted the sample “Hello World” post). Aren’t you going to publish posts? If so you need a “posts page” as well (see the info file on static front).
Now if you stick to Blix (an odd theme, as raincoaster said) and the static front page, you might need to add some essential navigation links to that front page. Otherwise switch to a theme that does display the sidebar in static pages.
The “Home” tab is hard-coded into the theme: you can’t remove it. If you don’t want it, again you’ll have to switch to a theme with no such tab.
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Good Lord, I’m technologically challenged…
Ok – I do want to post. I’ve set up my categories – again, they aren’t showing up. I need a separate page for the posts still? It took me a lifetime to get the header graphic set right. Would I be able to use it if I switched themes? Would my best/easiest course of action be to switch themes? If so, do you have one to recommend that isn’t tricky?
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You’re not technologically challenged: some things are tricky in the beginning, I’m afraid.
– I gave you the link that shows your sidebar in action: categories and everything are there alright. But if you have actually writen some categories, note that they won’t show in the sidebar unless there are posts assigned to them.
– Yes you need a separate posts page if you stick with the static front idea. The way to do that is create a new blank page, title it “Posts” or whatever you prefer, and set it as your posts page (in Settings > Reading). But you could also abandon the static front: revert to posts as front, and rename the page into “About Gen.X”, “About this blog” or so.
– If you switch to another theme, you’ll have to edit the graphic so that it fits the dimensions of the other theme, then reupload that new version.
– By the way, I understand you don’t want the “Home” tab because of the redundancy. There’s a way to get rid of the “Gen.X” tab, if you wish (but that’s also tricky, so we can get to that after you finally decide on what your front is going to be).
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Re dash two, another possibility is to turn your page into a “sticky” post (a post that will remain permanently on top of newer ones).
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You have been incredibly helpful! Thank you! I’ll play around with the static front thing as it doesn’t seem to be vital – I just want the sidebar!
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I am having a similar problem trying to create subpages using the Cutline template. Does anyone have a trick? Here’s my site. http://lordsandladiesofleisure.wordpress.com/
It seems that everything I post hits the Front Page and I can’t assign it to be a sibling page. So for example, you will see an event posting on my Front Page and I tried to post that to the Events page. Went into my Event Page and clicked “new post”, wrote the post, published and it doesn’t show up in that section. Instead it shows up on the front page. Then I tried playing around a bit with the attributes for this post, changing it to have the parent page be “events” but it still doesn’t show up on Events. There is a URL that’s created, but it doesn’t show up on the live site, however I can navigate to it by typing http://lordsandladiesofleisure.wordpress.com/events/february-events/
So, the above URL makes it LOOK like its a sub-page under Events, but it doesn’t actually show up – you can find that page anywhere on my site unless you know the URL above.
Anyone know what I can do? This is frustrating as heck – new to blogging and thinking of switching blog hosting sites just to get around this. Its not intuitive, the backend content mgmt system. I have lots of sub-pages I want to create under “events” and “guest bloggers” and “budget tips”…but until I figure out how to get the sub-page thing to work, I have to hold off postings.
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– Subpages will only show if you add the Pages widget (the header displays parent pages only).
– All posts go to the main posts area (calling it a page is rather misguiding). A page you create is “static”, i.e. just like a single post: you cannot have posts in pages.
– The way to arrange your posts under specific topics is assigning them to categories (and adding the Categories widget).
– If you don’t want a mixed-subject posts area, you can set a static front page.
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loladmin,
First, you are confusing pages and posts. Pages are static. You cannot post to them. Use them to write basice information like “about me” “glossary” “basic facts” “where we are located” and so on.
Posts are the articles you write daily ( or hourly, or weekly, or whenever). Posts will always show up on a special page. In some themes it’s “home” or “blog” or “front page.” There is only one page for posts.
http://support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
Second, you need to have a “Pages Widget” so that your sub pages will appear in navigation. This is automatic: subpages will be listed as you add them. Without that, readers won’t see any sub-pages. Or you could provide links in a parent page to it’s subpages. You do that by hand. -
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As tsp once aptly told you, no, I just started earlier!
This had happened so many times to me, too, that I have developed the habit of hitting refresh before clicking “Send Post”.
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