Page Hierarchy

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Last updated: Mar 08, 2022 by Sarah Nguyen (Deactivated)
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Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs are based on the hierarchy of the pages.

  1. Set up a page that will be used as the top of the Hierarchy; this page can already exist.

  2. Next, create a new page or edit an existing one.

    permalink and parent page

  3. Go to the Page Attributes section.

  4. Click on the Parent drop-down menu.

  5. Choose the parent page from the list of pages.

  6.  Publish or Update the page.

To see what this looks like,

  1. Go to Pages.

  2. Scroll down to the parent page. You can see that hierarchy shown with the dash next to the child(ren) page(s). In the screenshot below, the Graduate page is the parent of the Admissions and Events pages.

    hierarchy

Now that you have set up the Page Hierarchy, you may want to turn on Breadcrumbs.

  1. Go to Appearance > Customize > Navigation Options > Breadcrumbs. The breadcrumbs will display on top of the child(ren) page(s).

  2. Set Breadcrumbs On.

  3. Go to a child page and you will see the breadcrumbs above the title of the page.

Precrumbs

Precrumbs can be added to the left of the Breadcrumbs.

  1. Go to Appearance > Menus.

  2. Click Create a new menu.

  3. Enter “Precrumbs” as the Menu Name.

  4. Add menu items.

  5. Click Save Menu.

The Precrumbs and Breadcrumbs are displayed on the top of the Other Custom Plugin page on the Aurora website. See the image below.

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