How can I show a list of all Child pages from the parent page?

  • I realize the title is a bit confusing.

    Let’s say I have a site about recipes. myrecipes.com

    I want to have multiple main parent pages such as:

    myrecipes.com/mexican
    myrecipes.com/chinese
    myrecipes.com/korean
    myrecipes.com/mediterranean

    The actual recipes will be on pages like myrecipes.com/mexican/enchiladas

    I want myrecipes.com/mexican to just have like an excerpt of each of the mexican recipes starting with the most recent at the top. Is this possible? How can I do this?

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  • Sounds like you want to have your main recipe types will be the Categories and each recipe a post under the relevant category.

    If you won’t want your site to read like:
    myrecipes.com/category/mexican…etc., you can edit your Permalinks category section with a period (as described here) or there are plugins that will do the same thing.

    So these should all be posts instead of pages, that way they will fall into their natural order (by post date).

    Cheers

    Thread Starter jruh1e

    (@jruh1e)

    @patrick thanks that seems to working just how I want it. Is there a way to make the same multiple child categories?

    For example, when I try and make:

    myrecipes.com/mexican/breakfast/

    that works fine, but if I try and also make

    myrecipes.com/chinese/breakfast/ it makes it into

    myrecipes.com/chinese/breakfast-chinese/

    Is there a way to not have it add the extra part of the url?

    When you assign multiple categories to a post, only one can show up in the permalink. The categories are ordered alphabetically. In each group of sub-categories the order will also be alphabetical. The post will still be accessible through all the categories as normal.

    See Using Permalinks here.

    Check out Managing Categories here

    So you can still add them as sub categories, but if you want them to show up like you want, then you would have to make them all Pages.

    You would need to create your Parent pages first, then your breakfast/lunch/dinner pages would be the child pages Mexican/Chinese/Korean etc.

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