By michal frackowiak
Description
It is quite important to have a nice and clean structure of the site. One of the best ways to do maintain such a structure is to use the "parent page" relation. This allows to:
- display breadcrumb navigation element within pages
- make nice sitemaps and listings
Below you will find a piece of code to make a "tree view" of pages also called "sitemap".
Code
If you want to start from the main page ("start"), just use the code:
[[module PageTree root="start" showRoot="true" depth="30"]]
In action
http://morgdan.wikidot.com/mapa-do-site
http://zeroinfluence.wikidot.com/phoarmats:overview
http://potlatch.wikidot.com/sitemap
http://allyrics.wikidot.com/mappa-del-sito
Thanks to tsangk for this great snippet: conditional-blocks
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**##red|Thanks to tsangk for this great snippet:##** [[[code:conditional-blocks]]]
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Good to know that you can change the parent of existing (or new) pages by clicking on the +options button (lower right).
Set the parent of your current page to something that makes sense, i.e. "start".
See a simple (and nice) map in action here:
http://rcsp.wikidot.com/mapa-do-site
…. What is the order form pages?
This is very useful! One small thing, though:
I am using the following settings:
[[module PageTree root="wow" showRoot="false" depth="30"]]
This still shows the "wow" page as the root of the tree. I'd prefer that it hide it and show only the children and their children.
Not exactly sure what the solution to that is, but I do know that showRoot must be set to "true", i.e. if you do not wish to have it set to true, do not include it at all. Try that, and see if it fixes your problem.
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do you know if there is a way to automatically set the parents for pages created with a "new page" module on a particular page?
I would *love* to see something like this, perhaps in a template or something. or at least a shortcut for setting parents. as is, its waaay too slow, essentially manually curating a sitemap
just show "Welcome to your new Wikidot site" :-(
Still not working :-(
i did [[module PageTree root="start"]] and
[[module PageTree root="start" showRoot="true" depth="30"]]
is just showing a single link to the start page
Yes, I also facing this problem, can anyone solve it ???
you have to establish a parenthood relationship between a page and the page start by pressing the +options buttons and then the parent button :)
I see this too. I think the problem is that my start page just has text. i.e. no links.
All my links are in the side bar. I tried putting nav:side as the root but that doesn't seem to work either.
How can I set the root to the entire site ??
Do you use "parenting" ?
Not the links are building a site-map!
Every page you want to show up in the site map needs a "parent" -structure upwards till the "root".
This is not necessarily the start page - you can have more "page trees" on a site… perhaps someone inside as category - or other way round only the start-pages of a category connected up to a parent-page - to show in a site map the "structure" of your site and not the single entry pages of a "blog" or "news" category…
Necessary is the "parenting" ( set up at the bottom of the pages in the +"options" —> "parent" for every page.
This gives you automatically the "breadcrumb navigation" too.
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hi.the first time
is there a way to change the breadcrumb navigation display using css?
thx!
Thank you, it makes my life easier and my site better!
Psammead
It took me about an hour hunting around the wikidot documentation to discover something as simple and basic as how to set a page's parent, i.e. that I have to use + options etc. etc. It's as if the writers of the beginners' manual just forgot that people need to know that! It is hidden away in there somewhere but not in any obvious place. Please improve that aspect of the documentation for future users!
I agree with Alan about the lack of applicable documentation for this feature, but I guess that's the purpose behind the forum. After some fiddling around, I found this feature relatively easy to use. Instead of using it throughout the site, however, I started it in one sub-section (KnowledgeBase, for example) and implemented the sitemap throughout the subordinate pages below KnowledgeBase. For each sub-section page, I simply added the name of the "parent" page ("KnowledgeBase") under +options | parent.