how to show full path length on child-pages

  • Resolved Jacob Schipper

    (@jacob-schipper)


    6 years, 8 months ago

    Up till now I used the standard WP themes. Using such a standard theme one has to give each page a specific number for determining the sequence in the top navigation. If one wants to create a child page one has to select at the page-attributes the name of the particular page which will become tje parent of the new child page.
    The full url in above situation for child page will be mywebsite.com/parent/child

    Using the Sydney the situation is different (easier) to position the parentpage and the childpage. Using the drag and drop technique on Appearance/Menu one can easily position parent and/or child where ever you like it to be.The child page will show up as a submenu item.
    However the Url of the child page has changed now: instead of mywebsite.com/parent/child it has become mywebsite.com/child ! It is not clear any more that this page is a child page. On one hand this is an easier presentation, but i am not happy that the parentpage is not mentioned any more, in particular if a page has several children. Also how will Google look at this? Please advise how I can come to the original presentation of mywebsite.com/parent/child.

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  • Roman Bondar

    (@romanbon)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hello Jacob,

    The functionality that you described is WordPress functionality so it should work with any theme, including Sydney. Please make sure that Page Attributes checkbox is checked in Screen Options.

    Kind Regards, Roman.

    Thread Starter Jacob Schipper

    (@jacob-schipper)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Roman, Thanks for your reaction. The Page Attributes WERE checked in Screen Options.
    The problem is you cannot have both the ‘drag and drop facility’ and and the way by giving the parent and child page a number.
    I ‘repaired’ the drag and drop method afterwards by giving all pages the relevant number and then putting all children pages under their respective page. Only then the proper relations is shown when a child page is selected.
    However there is another problem, namely the new child page can be moved around to any other parentpage but still will remain its earlier revised path. For child pages the drag and drop method is less useful. For main pages it is excellent.

    Roman Bondar

    (@romanbon)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hello Jacob,

    It looks like your issue requires close inspection, you can hire someone for this kind of service.

    Kind Regards, Roman.

    Thread Starter Jacob Schipper

    (@jacob-schipper)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Before hiring somebody I am wondering whether you tried it yourself in the way I explained it. If you observe the same problem than it is a general problem which the designer should hopefully fix. If it shows up only at my site than I should maybe fix it.
    As I outlined before I found a way around it.
    Regards
    Jacob Schipper

    Roman Bondar

    (@romanbon)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hello Jacob,

    I tried to set a parent page in Page Attributes and its child page permalink had this structure: http://example.com/parent-page/child-page/.

    As far as I understand, you are not getting such structure, is that correct?

    Kind Regards, Roman.

    Thread Starter Jacob Schipper

    (@jacob-schipper)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Yes, I do get this structure however only if I do it in the right seqeunce:
    Step 1: prepare the parent page and publish.
    Note: the number system for determining the position in the top navigation apparently does not function anymore, so don’t border to give this page a number.
    step 2: Add to menu and ‘drag and drop’ this parent page to its proper position
    step 3: prepare the child page and make sure that on page attributes the parent page is selected. Publish the child page.
    step 4 Add to menu and drag and drop the child page under the parent page.
    I hope this is clear.
    In my opinion the case can be closed now.

    Just one additional remark: I notice that some of the standard properties of WP change in the Sydney theme (see above example) or do not function anymore. E.g. the search facility which I added to site bar of the blog does not work! Is this known to you or should I start another ticket on this particular problem

    Roman Bondar

    (@romanbon)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hello Jacob,

    As far as I understand you expect Order number to affect page position in menu. I think that the only way to reorder menu items is to drag them in menu settings.

    You can read about Order here:
    https://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/content/pages/page-attributes/#order

    Please create a new topic for your search issue.

    Kind Regards, Roman.

    Thread Starter Jacob Schipper

    (@jacob-schipper)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    You are right: the only way to affect page position in menu is by using the drag facility in menu settings.
    The method mentioned above
    https://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/content/pages/page-attributes/#order
    by giving each page an unique page number (1,2,3….) does NOT work! Once dragged to a certain postion you can give a page any number you like, but the position does NOT change.
    One nice thing to mention is the fact that when dragging a parent page (with a child page attached) to another position in the menu the child page moves along with the parent page to their new postion. They remain attached during this moving process.

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