Parent and child urls in Wix

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Hey, I would really appreciate any help on how I create a page url that sits under one of my main menus.

I have noticed all my pages are getting their own unique urls directly from the homepage.com/every-page-links-from-here rather than homepage.com/parent-topic/child-page - despite being organised accordingly under their own parent page within my Site Menu.

I know I can edit my urls with “SEO & Social” but I don’t seem to be able to pin them to a parent page url or manipulate it to add the parent as they don’t accept “/”.

Please can someone help with a) where I’m going wrong and where to change it, or b) if it isn’t actually possible at all, which seems ridiculous to me.

Thank you in advance!

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From what I know all pages will start their url from your domain name, so as you’ve said already every page would be www.mywebsite.com/url-name-here.

The only time when you would have the possibility of having another folder listed as well will be when you add a members area and all the pages associated with that will be listed /account/my-account etc.

The same with any dynamic pages like members profile pages which will be /Members/members-user-id-here

Or if you had for example a food dishes collection which was based on their title, so Dishes (Title) would give you urls like /Dishes/Pizza and /Dishes/Chicken and so on.

( When a visitor goes to a dynamic page, all the items in the collection with a URL that matches the URL of the page will be bound to the page’s dataset. For dynamic item pages, each item will have a unique URL. For dynamic category pages, multiple items will share a URL. )

Would be good if all our sub-pages in our editor are listed as such in the url name, like with a pictures section and having /Pictures/Picnic or Pictures/Zoo etc.

However, unless those pages are setup as above, then as you know everything will come off of your website domain name only - unless somebody else can surprise us and give us a workaround for it now!

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Thank you @givemeawhisky - this seems so bonkers to me! Surely this is part of the fundamental building blocks to building a website? It is actually making me reconsider advising others to take up the platform!

Anyone else know of a workaround?!

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I completely agree with being able to set a parent/child URL. I’m trying to do this too right now, and with no luck!

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Just wondering if anyone has found a solution to this by now? Seems mad that something so fundamental isn’t integrated into Wix :no_mouth:

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I am working with this as well now and you probalby need routers for this

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any updates? This is a feature that needs to come on Wix asap!

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I actually had to pay someone to do this for me. And they did - not sure how they did it, to be honest, but my links now work like the following: website.com/services/service1

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2023 december but still same…I cannot access parent page name of the current page. Websites generally show where the user now, where the user in the page hierarchy. It is a must i think. The user must know where he/she clicked. I tried some kinds of things like $w(currentpage.name).parent etc but no luck