Understanding Page Structure and URLs

How you organize pages in the Pages section of your back office determines both the page’s URL and how it appears in your site map.

Parent Pages

By default, any new page you create is a parent page.

• The URL for a parent page is based on its page name (for example: www.test.com/example-page).

• You can edit this URL at any time in the page settings.

Child Pages

When you move a page beneath another in the page hierarchy — so it’s slightly indented to the right — it becomes a child page.

• A child page’s URL will include the parent page’s URL, followed by the child page’s URL.

• For example:
   

  www.test.com/example-parent-page/child-page

You can edit the child page’s portion of the URL (e.g., child-page), but you cannot remove or edit the parent page’s portion from within the child page settings.
To change that, you would need to edit the parent page or convert the child page back into a parent page.

Example URL Structure

Parent Page URL:

www.test.com/example-parent-page

You can edit this URL directly within the parent page’s settings.

Child Page URL:

www.test.com/example-parent-page/child-page

Only the last part (child-page) can be edited on this page. The text before it is inherited from the parent page.

Multiple Levels of Child Pages

You can nest child pages under other child pages as deeply as needed. Each additional level inherits the structure above it. For example:

www.test.com/example-parent-page/child-page/child-of-child-page

No matter how deep the hierarchy goes, each child page’s URL will always include the full path of its parent pages.