Sub pages
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My blog was displaying sub pages, then I added other widgets and sub pages stopped being displayed. How can I get subpages to work again. I do not want to use the ‘Pages’ widget as it does not seem to be able to modify what is displayed by page.
Blog URL: http://www.10ktobi.org/
If there is some other workaround please let me know.Thanks.
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Have you opened the Page widget and seen the options available inside for you to choose from?
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Hello and thanks for responding. Yes, I have opened the ‘Page’ widget (and have it activated on the blog now); the options seem limited to me (title, sort by and exclude). Am I missing something? You can only choose pages to ‘omit’ and what is displayed (from what I can tell) is not dependent on the page that the user is on — all the pages have the same links. It was so nice and easy before: my ‘About’ page had the ‘About’ sub pages associated with it, my ‘Submit’ page had the ‘Submit’ subpages associated with it. If there is an option in the Page widget which allows me to get the ‘associated’ sub pages working again, please let me know how to activate it.
I appreciate your help.
Best,
Denis -
@Denis: If I understand correctly, you want each parent page to display the links to its own subpages.
Whatever options there may be in a widget, they only affect what is diplayed in the SIDEBAR. This means that the Pages widget is no use in this case. It also means that the change cannot be due to your having added other widgets. Some themes do display subpages in a parent page, others don’t. Did you change the theme you were using, perhaps?
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I have been using the same theme. I think I know what is happening now. The subpages seem to be a default feature (in the SIDEBAR) for this theme. Once I try to customize my SIDEBAR, the subpages and other default features disappear, and unfortunately, I can’t figure out how to get them back. For now, I guess I will just use the ‘pages’ widget. Thanks for your help,
best,
Denis -
Denis, you haven’t been very clear in describing this problem, but I experimented and finally understand what you mean. In Unsleepable, when no sidebar widgets have been added, the sidebar of a parent page will only display its child pages (along with the search box), NOT what is displayed when you are in the main blog page. When you add any sidebar widget, this feature goes. Differences such as this aren’t unique to this theme, and the reason for them is that with no added widgets the theme is artificially generating sidebar items, not necessarily identical to the result you get with widgets.
Solution one: sidebar with no widgets, all additional widgets in the bottombar.
Solution two (if you don’t want to lose the nice banner you’ve got top left): add your subpages as links in the main body of the parent pages.Another defect of Unsleepable is that when you have the Pages widget on, subpage tabs don’t show up indented or otherwise differentiated (as is the case with most themes). So, solution three: add the Pages widget, and add this repeatedly in the title box of your subpages:
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Thank you for taking the time to provide me with these options. I went ahead and used SOLUTION 3. Cheers!
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Glad I could help! You can paste that piece of code several times in a row, if you wish, to make the effect more pronounced.
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