Title: Posts – Parent / Child relationship
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Posts – Parent / Child relationship

 *  [drewbertola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewbertola/)
 * (@drewbertola)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-parent-child-relationship/)
 * Can anyone explain the parent – child relationship of posts? When is a child 
   created and for what purpose?

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-parent-child-relationship/#post-2958445)
 * Child is a sub page or post of your main menu and you can create it in Appearance
   >>>Menus if your supports custom menus.
 *  Thread Starter [drewbertola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewbertola/)
 * (@drewbertola)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-parent-child-relationship/#post-2958450)
 * I’m seeing posts with post_parent = 0 (these must be parent posts), and I’m seeing
   posts with post_parent > 0 (these must be children). But the children posts were
   not explicitly created.
 * Is this a versioning scheme – the children are created when I update the original
   post?
 *  Thread Starter [drewbertola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewbertola/)
 * (@drewbertola)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-parent-child-relationship/#post-2958483)
 * Here’s another question:
 * Why do the children posts have no content or excerpt?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [drewbertola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewbertola/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-parent-child-relationship/#post-2958483)
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