Parent/Child pages definition?

  • I tried to find a clear definition on how this works but I’m still confused: what exactly are – how do they render on a site – parent & child pages???

    I clearly see how to create them. No problem. What I can’t get is their usage and the purpose of creating them. What for create parent & child pages? Any examples?

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  • The default menu (in most themes) is Pages. The top menu items will be parent pages. Child pages are listed under it’s parent page when hovered. To test just use default pages menu, create some pages and assign parents….

    While some may prefer to do this, I believe a better method is to use a custom menu with the standard set of pages, home, about, contact, services, etc, then include content in posts that are arranged in categories, those categories added to your custom menu as needed…tags added to posts also help connect related posts.

    Thread Starter John

    (@dsl225)

    Thanks for this, but I really don’t get the idea behind this. I even run a new empty WP installation to see what happens. In fact this just creates menus without going to the menu settings. Like you say.

    But what’s the idea behind this? I mean if you want menus, you go to the Menus. I you create pages you go to Pages…

    If you don’t create menus at all, pages are automatically added to the navigation bar and the parent/child structure is implemented in place of menus. That’s really confusing.

    OK, thanks for your reply but I would be curious to understand why this setting exists and why people use it, if any.

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