Adding Pages Under “Parent” – How?

  • Here is what I am trying to accomplish.

    My Theme does not have “drop down” menus, nor have I been able to get any plug-in to work to give me this support. So what I want is the next best thing since I can’t have that.

    I have added hyperlinks at the top of one of my “Pages” to take the viewer to other articles. These “articles” are “Pages.”

    The “Parent” page is “Gardening” and the “Sub Pages” are various gardening topics.

    If I “publish” what I want to be “Sub Pages” to the “Parent” page, rather than going into a “drop down, they appear as “buttons” alongside the “Parent” page. I see no functionality to this feature at all.

    I thought I had the work around, but of course not! I saved the “Sub Pages” as Private and it worked….that is until I discovered that the only reason it worked was because I was logged in as Administrator, as soon as I log out, all the links default to the .index page.

    This is probably real confusing, so here is the url to the page I am working with on so you can see what I am attempting:

    https://www.theruralindependent.com/gardening-supplies-information

    Thank you in advance for any help offered.

    (I really probably ought to switch to a Theme that will give me drop down support, so if anyone after seeing my page and how packed with content (4 columns) it is has any suggestions please let me know.)

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  • Do you want all pages to be listed as a dropdown? Where Subpages are included in a dropdown? Or do you just want the subpages in a dropdown when your in a spesific page?

    Thread Starter dougf4

    (@dougf4)

    I’m not 100% sure of your quesiton – sorry for my ignorance.

    But I would think that whatever is closest to the traditional “drop down” Hierarchy.

    I’d like the visitor to see the drop down choices from the main page and then also from the “main page” for the topic.

    If the second option is all that I can get, then that will surely be better than nothing at this stage.

    If all I can get is some sort of hyperlink from the parent page to the sub-page like I am attempting, I can live with that for now.

    Thanks for your help on this!

    Doug

    Hello,

    Have you tried the categories widget and set it to dropdown in their setting?

    Thread Starter dougf4

    (@dougf4)

    No, is that the name of it, or is there one particular one you might recommend?

    Also, on my Theme, my categories appear in the main part of the page and “posts” nest underneath of them.

    Pages are what appear in the nav bar up top and then open as new pages.

    https://www.theruralindependent.com

    I assume your theme is using / supporting widgets? If you go to your “Appearance” tab and click “Widgets” then you will be able to drag a widget named “Categories” to the sidebar on the right of the screen, from there you can tick a box to show the categories as “Dropdown”

    Thread Starter dougf4

    (@dougf4)

    OK, I’ve added the Widget and ticked the show categories.

    I then published a “page” called “Deer Proofing” listing “Gardening” as it’s “Parent.”

    “Deer Proofing” still shows up as a “Parent” in the menu bar alongside of “Gardening.” There is no drop down listed under Gardening either.

    Am I doing things as I should?

    I am still a bit confused where you are trying to locate this dropdown, but currently your dropdown is appeared on the sidebar next to the “Categories” list.

    Thread Starter dougf4

    (@dougf4)

    Well, duh on me for not knowing the lingo I guess.

    What I want is in the top bar, I believe it is the “nav” bar is to have the sub pages drop down from the labeled button. In my example, you would hover over “Gardening” and the sub pages will appear below in a list. This is the traditional thing you see all the time on the web.

    Sorry for the confusion. I definitely do not want the category drop box. I do see it now and I also see how placing it in the right sidebar has moused up my whole page, although I do kind of like the wide, xtra columns in the top half. The bottom half pretty much bites tho!

    I am sorry, can you take a screenshow of your page, and mark where you want the dropdown to appear in paint etc?

    I am still very confused on where you want the dropdown located.

    Thread Starter dougf4

    (@dougf4)

    Sure, but it will be awhile before I can get to it.

    If you just go to the top of this page and hover your mouse over the “Blog” button, you’ll see it turn white.

    When I do this on my site, I want the “sub-pages” to appear below the button being hovered over.

    Thanks for all your help frosken!

    Hello,

    You need to replace the navigation code in your header file with the following to accomplish what your trying.

    <ul>
<?php wp_list_pages("depth=3&title_li="); ?>
</ul>

    Then you need to put the appropriate styling on the dropdown menus! Please enter that code replacing your old navigation, and i will see if i can put some styling on your sub navigation ??

    Sorry for the confusion, suddenly it came clear to me what you wanted wafter your last explenation.

    Thread Starter dougf4

    (@dougf4)

    Cool – it seems that I should wait for that second code before proceeding and killing my present nav.

    ThanX!

    Doug

    Your present nav wont be killed, it will be working like your current nav is doing! Only difference is that your new navigation will also list the subpage below the approiate main menus.

    Thread Starter dougf4

    (@dougf4)

    When I tried it, things got all janked up.

    Here is the navigation code. Can you please help me with what to remove and replace? I obviously did something wrong.

    <!– begin navigation –>

    <!– end navigation –>

    You need to remove everything and including <ul> menu </ul>..

    What you did was to put the new code inside an existing <li> </li>

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