what is a parent page?
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I’ve never heard of it, and don’t know how to use it.
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I feel like such an idiot!
What is “a blockquote em strong ul ol li.?”
I know nothing of codes. Many many years ago, before going into nursing, I was a secretary and had an IBM Selectric typewriter.Is it absolutely **necessary** to have a parent page?
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Hey there!
I think we met on live chat over the weekend :-)
Can I give you some more help? What are you trying to achieve?
To answer some of your doubts, a “Parent Page” is a Page (static type of content) that has “Child Pages”. This is useful to organize your pages, and some themes actually display them in a different way.
For example, your “Recipes” page might contain a description of your cooking style, some back story on how you learned, and you could have 3 child pages with different recipes (making Recipes a parent page).
Your theme might show this child pages in a special way, or you might use the [child-pages] code to list them automatically as links at the end of your Recipes page.
Makes sense?
Regarding “a blockquote em strong ul ol li”, these are HTML tags, which work like quotes (with an opening and a closing element) and have the effect of styling text and elements.
Example, if I want a word to be marked bold I would surround it in:
<strong>bold text</strong>These are only a nerdy trick that you can use in some specific places in WordPress.com, your Posts actually have a nice visual editor that doesn’t require you to know anything about this.
Hope that helps a bit, let me know if you have any other doubt :-)
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Hi Diegoe! You saw Paul McCartney???? He was my first love! lol (that should give you and idea of my age lol)
What you described as a parent page makes sense if I was blogging about recipes. This is a biography (of sorts). The first part is about his childhood. Would a parent page say something like, “Ages 2 – 10”? …or do I have to elaborate?
I may be a slow blogging student, but was a whiz in medicine!
What I am going to do before I start more of my blog is observe others’ and maybe something will sink in.
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Hey!
Yeah. Paul was great, although I watched it from a veeeery long distance. Cheapest seats! Hah :).
Parent Pages are mostly for organizing the content. Some themes use that visually, some don’t. It’s somewhat like using Categories.
It’s mostly useful to enable some tricks like creating lists automatically to other pages. For example, I could have a Parent Page titled “FIFA World Cup”, and make one child page for each Group in the tournament.
I could then do some neat tricks like listing “sibling” pages in each Group page. This would be an automatically generated list that links to every other page that is also a Child of “FIFA World Cup”. I could do this to recommend my make it easy for my Readers to jump to the other group pages.
You could have Parent Pages like: Childhood, Teenage years, Youth. And make other pages like “Ages 2 – 4”, “Ages 5 – 10”, “Ages 10 – 20” children of any of those.
This would enable you to use the “shortcode” trick of listing pages automatically. So if I go to “Childhood” I could see a list of links to the more detailed pages.
It’s a bit ethereal to talk about this, but the best way to learn is to try it out :-)). You can create a test blog if you want (no need to create a second account, just go to http://signup.wordpress.com/) and make all kind of tests there.
Also, this might be a handy read for some general concepts: http://learn.wordpress.com/
We’ll be happy to answer your questions, so feel free to write us anytime :)
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