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Thanks Martin … I was being either blind or stupid (and probably both). Completely missed that option. Just tried it and it works perfectly. Really sorry to trouble you.

Regards
Ron

Thanks .. the development web site is dev.dentaid.org.uk

As you can see, there is a Nav Bar menu with a load of pages linked from it in what is up to a four deep hierarchy (this may be limited to 3 in the future). There are also widgets at the bottom of the screen which refer to pages as well as the other UI components on the home page. The Nav Bar is built with wp_nav_menu (clearly in a hierarchy). But the pages may be repeated several times in the menu options (e.g. a volunteer page may be called up a number of times within the menu structure). So (maybe from my naiive understanding) it is not possible to replicate the hierarchical menu structure in pages. Therefore, I think that I need to abandon one or the other. Clearly, I need to keep the structure in the menus so it leads me to the conclusion that I should just give up on a hierarchy in the pages and use a straight linear list sorted alphabetically (which will make pages easy to find).

So that’s my dilemma and latest thinking (I’ve increased the number of pages per screen at your suggestion and that makes it a whole load easier .. thanks).

I’m also thinking of using an App on the Mac called Marsedit which makes it possible to edit posts/pages locally. It seems that Marsedit doesn’t show pages in a hierarchy so that’s another reason to move in my currently favoured direction.

Any thoughts on the above welcome. Still wondering what I would lose in moving away from a page hierarchy.

Ron

OK .. I can see what is happening but I’m still not sure why. All of the pages are being correctly rendered with CustomContent, but when I edit one of those pages in admin, ‘Default Template’ gets selected as the page template on the right (which was the thing confusing me). If I just then click ‘Update’ (naking no updates whatsoever), the page gets rendered incorrectly as the Default Template (index.php) is obviously being used. To fix this, I then have to go back and select CustomContent as the page template and click update again. If I then re-edit the page, CustomContent is selected.
So, the question is, why was CustomContent not being pre-selected in the page template pull down menu ?
R.