Subpages and multi-level pages

Overview

Administrators can organize Wild Apricot web pages to create a hierarchy of pages.
For example, you might have a menu setup like this:
-About us
---> Board members
-------> Membership committee
-------> Sponsorship committee
---> Our mission
-Resources
--->Newsletters
--->Useful links
In the example above, 'Board members' is a 'child' or 'nested' page under 'About us' and 'Membership committee' is a 'child' of 'Board members'
Homepage is a root of this whole tree and as such it can not be deleted.

Currently you can have up to 3 levels in the hierarchy:
Level 1 -> Level 2 -> Level 3
Level 1 pages are your top level pages, shown on your left-hand menu (here and everywhere - subject to Page visibility and Page access). Here is how your site menu looks like to your site visitors:

Each Level 1 page can have subpages / child pages - which we will call Level 2 pages. Pages which do have subpages are indicated with an arrow. In the example above you can see that 'About us' and 'Mashup examples' have subpages.
To view subpages of a specific page, click on that page in the menu, it will expand to show its subpages. For example, by clicking on 'About us' we will see that it has three subpages - 'Board of directors', 'Contact us' and 'Volunteering':

In exactly the same way, Level 2 pages can have their own subpages - Level 3 pages. Continuing the example above, you can see that Level 2 page 'Volunteering' has a triangle indicator, meaning that it has subpages. If you click on it, you will see those subpages - level 3 pages ('How to volunteer', 'Our volunteers'):

Note that the screenshots above show how the page hierarchy is displayed to public visitors to your website. If you are logged in as an administrator, your left-side menu will automatically expand and always show you the full page hierarchy:

Adding new pages

When you add new pages, you can place them at the desired location in the hierarchy right away.
[Add Page] button brings up this window which allows you to control the location of this new page:

Specifically, in the the section 'Where to Insert', you can specify the desired location:

A useful trick Sometimes you want to have a webpage which is not shown on the left-side menu but is accessible via a direct link. For example, you might want to have your Legal terms of use and Privacy policy pages not shown on the left menu - but link to them from within Page footer. Here is how you can do it: create an invisible Level 1 page, e.g. Page 1 create a subpage of this page - Page 2 - but make it visible Now Page 1 will not be shown in the menu - and neither its subpages including Page 2. But since Page 2 is visible, you can still access it if you know its direct URL (which you can easily establish using Link button on editor toolbar on any other page)

See also: Moving your pages around