Why don’t “children” posts show up under pages?
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I set up a few different pages on my blog so they would appear in the tabs at the top, but if I post a page as having a parent page, there is no way for someone who is browsing to see the “children” pages. Maybe if they’re familiar with some feature of the site I’m not, but I want people who don’t know anything about WordPress to be able to find things too.
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Thanks. I guess I should have mentioned my theme. It’s hard to even know how to ask questions properly.
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No, DePo Masthead does not support custom menus. You would have to use a menu widget in your bottom bar.
But let’s step back a moment. You are confusing some important concepts:
1) Posts and Pages are two very different things.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
2) Use categories to organize your posts.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/category-management/I don’t know the best way to do posts and pages and such. I’m trying to have one page for my rankings, one for my conference reports, and one for my basic column-style blogs, but sub-pages don’t appear, so I don’t know how to do it.
You would assign your posts to “rankings” “conference reports” and “general talk”
thesacredpath made an excellent answer to a similar question here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posting-in-different-pages?replies=27#post-516907And Panos has a post on his blog that might also explain:
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So, once you have put your posts into categories, then you want your readers to find them. You could use a category widget in your bottom bar. Or you could try this niftly little trick to get your categories into your top navigation bar:
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Sorry, I realized that. It’s just weird because you can “post” either a post or a page (maybe I should start trying to use the word “publish” and “publishings” would cover both?), so that’s why I asked the question in that way. I’m asking about pages.
I think what I’ll do is make the parent pages like a table of contents, so people can access the children pages. That way people won’t have to scroll through everything. I can just make posts with the same content as the children pages, unless someone has a better suggestion.
I know about the categories, but I want posts with new content to appear on the front page, while I want those with old content (I’m basically manually importing a blog that I had done for years) just to be on pages, so I don’t mind the fact that they’re not easily noticed. I just don’t want them completely hidden either.
I will consider changing themes (thanks for confirming that I would need to do that, 1tess), but the DePo Masthead is one of the reasons I’m here, so I doubt I will find one that is just as or almost as good but adds the functionality I’m asking about.
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This is mostly resolved, I guess, but I would still like to know if there are other options or if someone knows of a theme that would do what I’m suggesting.
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