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Is there a way to organize Wordpress Pages?

by Letsurf
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I'm working on a site that will start with over 100 pages (not posts). The problem is that is just lists your pages in no particular order and it's terribly organized. Is there a plugin that will allow you to put them into different folders or categories? Or some type of tree?
#organize #pages #wordpress
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  • Profile picture of the author rosiebrown0
    WordPress does not use folders but you can organise static Pages in a hierarchical fashion using parent-child relationships.
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    • Profile picture of the author Letsurf
      Originally Posted by rosiebrown0 View Post

      WordPress does not use folders but you can organise static Pages in a hierarchical fashion using parent-child relationships.
      How do you do this?
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      • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
        Originally Posted by Letsurf View Post

        How do you do this?
        Mainly by learning more about the tool (WordPress) you are using.

        Just login, go to edit or create a Page and study carefully every link in the right sidebar.

        It is also helpful if you READ the documentation before asking questions...
        Pages « WordPress Codex
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        • Profile picture of the author Letsurf
          Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

          Mainly by learning more about the tool (WordPress) you are using.

          Just login, go to edit or create a Page and study carefully every link in the right sidebar.

          It is also helpful if you READ the documentation before asking questions...
          Pages « WordPress Codex
          Thanks for the info. I was looking for a way to change the backend user interface only and not really the entire site structure. I like the idea of sub pages but do you think using pages/sub pages will have a positive effect or negative for On-page SEO? It will make the URL's much longer. For example:

          New Cars, Used Cars, Car Reviews | Cars.com

          vs
          www.cars.com/sedans/toyota/toyota-camry
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  • Profile picture of the author alina855
    You can try Page Organizer plugin, but that changes the URLs.
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  • Profile picture of the author TimZ13
    This plugin is great for large websites
    WordPress › CMS Tree Page View « WordPress Plugins
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  • Profile picture of the author MrJonny
    Originally Posted by Letsurf View Post

    I'm working on a site that will start with over 100 pages (not posts). The problem is that is just lists your pages in no particular order and it's terribly organized. Is there a plugin that will allow you to put them into different folders or categories? Or some type of tree?
    Can you just orgainze them in your Menu? You can create lots of different Menus with your pages under each one.

    Just go to Appearance > Menu ... and add all your pages to a new Menu and you can organize them in any fashion.
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  • Profile picture of the author KingRoyal
    Yep, go to your Plugin directory and search for Page Organizer, we use it and it works great.
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  • Profile picture of the author Letsurf
    Is using sub-pages better for on-page SEO than doing each page individually? I was going to just set each page url for the keyword but if they have a hierarchical structure it might be better.
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  • Profile picture of the author KingRoyal
    Yeah, sub pages is the one im using. The plugin wont change the permalink of your page, it just helps you organize the pages in your backend
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    • Profile picture of the author Letsurf
      Originally Posted by KingMighty View Post

      Yeah, sub pages is the one im using. The plugin wont change the permalink of your page, it just helps you organize the pages in your backend
      =) What I meant was:

      If someone is searching for the keyword term "toyota camry" is using

      cars/toyota/sedans/toyota-camry

      better than

      cars/toyota-camry

      If I use the parent/child feature built into wordpress it will change the URL and include the parent page name in the URL as well. Is it better to have a Hierarchical structure in the URL? Or better to just have a very short url such as mysite/keyword...
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      • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
        Originally Posted by Letsurf View Post

        =) What I meant was:

        If someone is searching for the keyword term "toyota camry" is using

        cars/toyota/sedans/toyota-camry

        better than

        cars/toyota-camry

        If I use the parent/child feature built into wordpress it will change the URL and include the parent page name in the URL as well. Is it better to have a Hierarchical structure in the URL? Or better to just have a very short url such as mysite/keyword...
        That's a question for the SEO forum and shouldn't be discussed here.

        As a long time WP user I think people, usually, over-complicate the whole seo madness... and 99.99% of the experts are just guessing.

        Did it ever occur to you to try to make it the best URL/content-structure for your visitors...? :p
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        • Profile picture of the author Letsurf
          Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

          That's a question for the SEO forum and shouldn't be discussed here.

          As a long time WP user I think people, usually, over-complicate the whole seo madness... and 99.99% of the experts are just guessing.

          Did it ever occur to you to try to make it the best URL/content-structure for your visitors...? :p
          This site is 100% for my visitors and there will be breadcrumbs to help them navigate. Just not sure about the URL structure as the thought of using the parent/child feature didn't occur to me until it was pointed out here. I didn't even know about it before so it now presents another decision to make.I'm using a mindmap to lay out all the content to be as user friendly as possible, now just trying to decide to use the wordpress built in parent/child structure or have each page separate. Is there any benefit to using the parent/child feature other than having the URL structure change and when pages are listed in widget it will show subpages under parent pages?
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  • Profile picture of the author leslieyoung
    Just use the page organizer in your plugin by using this you can easily organize your website and you can also change even all the menus.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Benefits? - If done smartly, you can, actually, create an excellent silo structure for your content...

    And before you ask - just go through the whole thread (lots of confusing info at the beginning) > http://www.warriorforum.com/website-...nderstand.html
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    • Profile picture of the author Letsurf
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      Benefits? - If done smartly, you can, actually, create an excellent silo structure for your content...

      And before you ask - just go through the whole thread (lots of confusing info at the beginning) > http://www.warriorforum.com/website-...nderstand.html
      Just got done reading thread and now understand siloing. From what I read this is how you implement it:


      ------------- In one theme that I made on single post view (which you consider a "dead end") I had two different link pairs on the top and on the end.

      TOP - Next/Previous post in chronological order

      BOTTOM (end of post) - Next/Previous post in the same category

      All this can be done without any plugin, just adding a single line of code to the single.php template.

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      I'm working with wordpress Pages, any suggestions on how to handle this since there aren't categories in Pages? I understand the idea of taking an article and linking it to a related article (LSI). At the same time I'm confused about how to actually link it. Should I have anchor text at the bottom that reads "check out (related keyword here)". Or should I have a widget in the side panel with links to all the pages that are related... It is all very confusing =)
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeyLightning
    This might be what you're looking for to organize your pages:

    WordPress › Support » CMS Tree Page View
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  • Profile picture of the author spaceball9
    Might be worth checking out the Wicked Folders plugin. It allows you to organize pages and posts into folders. It doesn't change your page's hierarchy or URLs so you can freely organize them how you want on the back-end without disrupting the pages themselves.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wicked-folders/
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