Normally, flat post types such as the Post post type do not have parents. However, some people like to use pages for their hierarchy and want posts to be children of these pages. Typically, these pages have a description and then a post list based off of a category.
While I personally do not recommend this type of site structure, Breadcrumb NavXT has supported Pages as the parent of Posts for quite some time. The caveat has always been that setting the parent of the post was an exercise left to the user. I’ve just written a fairly basic plugin that removes that makes things easier. All it does is add a Parent metabox with a pages drop down to the edit screen for posts.
Installation is quite easy:
- Download the Master branch zip archive from GitHub
- In your WordPress Dashboard navigate to the plugin uploader (Plugins > Add New > Upload)
- Upload the zip archive
- Activate and enjoy!
You can keep up with day to day development via the Post Parents’ GitHub Repository.
-John Havlik
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