Correct. Hierarchies of pages are used to show the relationship from one piece of content to another. You’ll see this used if your site has breadcrumbs, for example.
Navigation is done through creating menus. These can link to any content on your site (pages, posts, external links).
You can have a hierarchy in your navigation as well (sub-menus).
Clear as mud?
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ruauu2
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Thanks, Shawn – you explained it well.
I understand what you said about the hierarchy showing up in breadcrumbs.
But if I don’t use breadcrumbs (the navigation and organization will be very simple and breadcrumbs may not be all that useful), what other advantage(s) are there to creating a hierarchy?
The site will be all pages (no blog posts) and the navigation will be two levels.
When you’re looking at the list of pages in the dashboard, it will indent the child posts under their parents, can make it easier to find the post you’re looking for if you’re just browsing through the list.
Also, the URL will reflect the relationship, assuming you’re using a permalink like /post-name/
You’ll get a URL like:
http://www.example.com/parent-page/child-page/grandchild-page/
This can be nice for recognizing where you are in a site. Also, and I’m not an SEO person, but it may help search engines determine your hierarchy. (Don’t quote me on that one!)
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ruauu2
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That helps much!
And you answered a question I forgot to ask and that is how the URL will be arranged. Good job.
Thank you!
