Sub pages are normally used when you want to hide some of your pages from appearing in the top navigation area of your theme or in the Pages widget in the sidebar.
A common reason for hiding a page from the navigation menu is when you’ve setup a static front page and end up with two Home links in your page navigation. Making your home page a sub page of another page hides one of the Home links from the navigation menu.
Bloggers also use this method to make their navigation less cluttered with page links. For example, Info For First Time Visitors! on The Edublogger is a sub page; HTML has been used in a text widget to link to this page and it ensures the top navigation area remains uncluttered.
How Make Sub Pages
Sub pages are created by:
- Changing the page from being a main page (parent) to be locating under another page (its parent page) in the attribute module on the Page screen
- and then clicking Update Page.
In the example below the home page is now located under the About page.
Below is an example of how pages and subpages are used on The Edublogger.
How to link to Sub pages using Text Widgets
All you need to do to link to a subpage is:
- Copy your subpage URL – click View Page and copy URL
- Write the HTML that links to your subpage in a text widget in your sidebar
Here Is the HTML you need to use to write links:
<a href=”http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/about/want-automatic-notification/”>Info for First time visitors!</a>
produces
Make sure you close the tag with </a> and enclosed the page URL with quotation marks (needs to look like this “http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/about/want-automatic-notification/”)
NOTE:
HTML is short for “Hyper Text Markup Language” which is a language used to tell a browser how to organise the layout of a web page it has downloaded from the Internet. It influences if text is bold, italics, a heading, bullet points.
