child wont go underneath parent

  • Hi
    I’ve read and reread the posts about this, and I still don’t get it. I had two pages, and I want the 2nd page to go underneath the 1st. Just. Can’t. On the Pages page, I see that the child is correctly sitting underneath, and indented from the parent. I’ve got the child page indented properly, with a little – that WP inputs when you’ve done it correctly. But go to homepage, and there’s no evidence I have done this. Nothing. The two pages are both solid, stand alone pages. Yes, I’ve checked trash. Nothing there. This is so utterly basic, surely I don’t need a widget.

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  • Hello there farmerdonna,

    Can you provide us a URL/Link of the said parent and child, so we can check?

    Thread Starter farmerdonna

    (@farmerdonna)

    Sorry, it’s not live yet. Can I give you a few screen shots? I have another open question about the version of WP I’m using, which I’m mentioning because maybe the version I’m using has a defect? I guessed above. That guess may affect the answer. Again, can’t get to the finish line on that, either.

    What theme are you using? Where on your homepage are you seeing your two pages?

    Thread Starter farmerdonna

    (@farmerdonna)

    Ok,
    I don’t know if responding via email works. I’m thinking “no.” So I’ll respond here, too. The Theme I’m using is Canard.
    On the home page there’s a basic menu with all the navigation options running along, horizontally, at the top of the page.
    Therapy Spas AND Resort Spas are both given equal billing at the top of the home page. I need Resort Spas to be a child of Therapy Spas. I’ve done everything I can think of to do. I seem to have done it right, but when you go to the View Website, nothing’s changed.

    If by “the pages page” you are referring to the admin section then yes indenting should work perfectly in there as that is the wordpress default

    However regarding your Homepage (customer facing side) a lot of themes don’t support child theme indenting (well they do but you just have to tweak the CSS to get it to work)

    I got caught out by this recently and just had to amend a CSS rule to make the indent happen on the frontend of the site.

    If you can tell us what theme you are using, we can probably give you the correct CSS code to tweak

    for me it was something like this

    ul.children li a {
    margin-left: 10px;
}

    but it may be different for you

    Ok ignore my response its no use for a horizontal menu

    Thread Starter farmerdonna

    (@farmerdonna)

    OK, I do appreciate your trying to help. I’m baffled that a theme wouldn’t support a child. That seems so utterly basic.

    Thread Starter farmerdonna

    (@farmerdonna)

    I looked up the Canard support page and found this:
    Menus

    Canard can display up to four Custom Menus: one in the theme’s header (Primary Menu), two above the header on large screens and above the footer on small screens (Secondary and Social Menu) and one in the footer (Footer Menu). Footer, Secondary and Social Menus only support top-level links; sub-menu items aren’t displayed. To set up your menus, go to Appearance → Menus.

    I read this to mean that the Primary Menu DOES support child pages.

    WordPress doesn’t automatically represent the parent/child relationship of pages in the menu; you need to manually edit the menu to do that. If you go to Dashboard > Appearance > Menus > Edit Menus, there’s a list of all of your menus in the dropdown box labeled “Select a menu to edit:”. Once you’ve selected a menu to edit, you’ll see the menu items in the panel labeled “Menu Structure”. If you click and drag a menu item slightly to the right, it’ll change to a sub-item. You’ll know this occurred when the text “sub item” appears next to the title.

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