Parent-Child Pages
All pages on the Learning Commons website have parent pages with the exception of the homepage. Each page is either a Landing Page or a Child Page, depending on the structure of all of its parents. This structure is important to pay attention to when you are adding new content in order to retain the navigation structure on the site.
For example:
- Landing Page 1 – if a page is displayed on the main navigation menu, then it is classified as a Landing Page 1 and has the “Main Page” as a parent (has no regular page as a parent).
- Landing Page 2 – if a page is a child page of a Landing Page 1, and is displayed when moving the mouse over the links in the main menu, then it is classified as a Landing Page 2 and has a Landing Page 1 as a parent.
- Child Page 1 – if a page is the child of a Landing Page 2 page, then it is classified as a Child Page 1 and has a Landing Page 2 as a parent
- Child Page 2 – if a page is the child of a Child Page 1 page, then it is classified as a Child Page 2 and has a Child Page 1 as a parent
Note: A regular page is any page that can be directly edited using the back end ‘Pages.’ The home page is not classified as a regular page, because its content is extracted from posts.
Navigation Structure
- Pages classified as 1st landing pages are directly visible as tabs on the top navigation bar (e.g. ‘Get Started’, ‘Get Ahead’).
- Pages classified as 2nd landing pages are only visible when moving the mouse over their parent page links (e.g. ‘Chapman Learning Commons’ is only visible when moving the mouse over “About”).
In the navigation structure, all child (content) pages are visible in the navigation widget on the right, when you are on the corresponding “parent” 2nd landing page.