What are Parent and Child Pages?
Creating a hierarchical structure by establishing a parent-child relationship between individual pages is a great way to organise your content, and can help display other relevant content to your visitors, based on the page they are viewing.
All pages start as a child (often called a subpage) of the home page. Once a child page then has children they become a parent. The structure will begin to look like a family tree.
If you had a blog for car enthusiasts the structur may look a little like this:-
- Home Page
- About Us (Child Page)
- Sports Cars (Parent Page)
- The most expensive sports car to buy (Child Page)
- Popular sports care colours (Child Page)
- Car maintenance (Parent Page)
- How to change your engine oil (Child Page)
In this example you will see that 'Sports Cars' is the parent to 2 children. So if your visitor was viewing that Page they can quickly jump to the child pages to continue their journey on that subject.
When a parent-child relationship exists the Parent page will automatically show links to its children in menus and in other key areas.
How do I Make A Parent-Child Page relationship?
When creating or editing a Page, under Parent Page simply select the Page that is to become this Pages parent. That Page will automatically change to a parent and this Page will become a child of that Page.