Pages no menu

  • bodd54

    (@bodd54)


    5 years ago

    An opinion about internal page link rather than menu links.
    if you can visualise the following, Main menu item linked to a page – that page with internal links to 20 pages(not attached to any menu item)- the 20 pages each have internal links to 30 pages (again not attached to any menu item).
    The only page attached to the menu directly is the first page, It then goes a further 2 deep without menu/nav links.
    Does wordpress pages have to be linked to a menu/nav item, the url would read menuPage/nextPage/lastPage . In Joomla all pages have to be attached to a menu does wordpress follow the same rules.
    The reason I do not want menu links is because I would prefer links to go from a page rather than have a drop down/sub-sub menu that would practically fill a page on its own.
    Your guidance would be gratefully appreciated

    • This topic was modified 5 years ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    No. As long as the page slug is distinct and the URL doesn’t contain conflicting information, WP will properly serve the page. Menu display/content is entirely arbitrary. If a page slug is “my-wp-page”, this link would still work:
    example.com/meaningless/information/my-wp-page/
    as would this:
    example.com/my-wp-page/ (its canonical URL)
    Doesn’t matter if the page has parents or not, though parent slugs are typically part of the page’s link.

    Thread Starter bodd54

    (@bodd54)

    Thanks bcworkz, the slug/url has always been my concern. I am using the parent but my concern was the possibility of google listing the same page from multiple sources: eg example.com/meaningless/information/my-wp-page/ or example.com/meaningless/information/my-wp-page-but-with-knobs-on/ or any other combination to display the same page which in my bitter experience absolutely ruins seo listings

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