Subpages Don’t Display

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  walkingthefenceline · Member · Oct 24, 2006 at 3:09 pm

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  I am using Connection theme.

  When I make a page a subpage, it doesn’t display. If I make it a Main Page it shows as a tab in the header and opens, but disappears when I subpage it to another Main Page.

  I have deleted everything and started from scratch. I have made a fresh blank Main Page, I have played with many combinations of page numbers; nothing seems to make it work.

  It would be a great feature to be able to use.

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  drmike · Member · Oct 24, 2006 at 6:33 pm

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  Funny. We just had a thread where the poster was trying to get rid of subpages and keep them from displaying. :)

  I don’t see any subpages on your site. Maybe if you pointed us to an example of this, we could see what is occuring.

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  walkingthefenceline · Member · Oct 25, 2006 at 1:44 pm

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  Thanks for responding. I went in and made two of the pages subpages of Recommended Books, and they are now not displaying.

  My conception was that if I held the cursor over, or clicked on, the parent page, the subpages would show as tabs, like in the Dashboard.

  Perhaps there is some obvious thing I am missing, but I tried working on this with many combinations over a period of time on several different occasions, and still don’t see what I am doing wrong.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2006 at 6:09 pm

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  I have confirmed that the sub-pages will display *only* in the sidebar and *only* if you drag and drop your pages widget into your sidebar
  -> dashbaord -> presentation -> sidebar widgets
  HTH

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  walkingthefenceline · Member · Oct 26, 2006 at 2:37 pm

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  Thanks. Is that for all themes or Connections?

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  walkingthefenceline · Member · Oct 26, 2006 at 3:01 pm

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  Okay, did that. Problem is, as far as I can get it to work:

  A. It still displays the parent page up in the header
  B. It automatically puts EVERY parent page in the sidebar.

  It would be nice to be able to have some in the sidebar and some in the header, considering that the best option (for me) is not available : tabs showing in the header when the parent page is selected.

  I guess I need to check the Themes that allow header customization, sidebar widgets, and single right sided sidebar and see if any of them allow it.

  Suggestions, anyone?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 26, 2006 at 4:03 pm

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  Hi – My confirmation was achieved by switching my test blog to the Connections theme and creating subpages.
  This theme is hard-coded to display parent page names in the header. You cannot change this.
  The pages widget is hardcoded to display sub-pages in the sidebar. You cannot change this.
  You cannot alter themes at wordpress.com – there are no themes that will allow you to do what you indicate you want.
  I ‘m sorry and do hope this saves you the time and effort of trying to achieve something you can’t.

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  walkingthefenceline · Member · Oct 26, 2006 at 4:10 pm

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  Well, I got here minutes after you posted — I just tried all the 2 column Themes that allow image headers and you are correct – none of them did what I want. :-)

  I have an idea I want to try as a workaround, but not optimistic about it.

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  walkingthefenceline · Member · Oct 26, 2006 at 4:47 pm

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  I have a almost satisfactory workaround.

  I used a text widget and made a link to the page. I couldn’t get it to link to a subpage, but it would when I made it a regular page.

  That made it display in the heaer, but I made the page private and it stopped showing in the header, but still displayed when I clicked through on the link in the text widget.

  The minor problem is when I open the page with the link, instead of it saying

  “Page Title”

  it says

  “Private: Page Title”

  The “Private” is put in by default and it doesn’t show when I go to Edit Page so I can’t lose it.

  Oh well, have to happy with what I got, I guess.