Title: Cannot add sub-page
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Cannot add sub-page

 *  [CitySquash1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citysquash1/)
 * (@citysquash1)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-sub-page/)
 * My website is CitySquash.org
 * I am completely unable to add sub pages to the existing pages on the site.
 * For example, there is currently a dropdown option that reads “Team”. I would 
   like to add an item to the dropdown called “Brooklyn Board” (for our board of
   trustees in Brooklyn). I have seen a number of youtube videos on how to do this
   and read wordpress instructions and have followed them exactly as per the videos/
   descriptions (add new page –> assign parent page –> publish). However, even after
   I publish the page, it does not appear as an option in the dropdown.
 * Can someone please help? WordPress allows me to add promotions, but will not 
   let me add new pages (will only let me change the content of pre-existing pages).
 * Please respond ASAP! Thank you!

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 *  [Brett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdeaton108/)
 * (@bdeaton108)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-sub-page/#post-5908441)
 * This sounds like you also need to edit the Menus (Appearance — Menus). Please
   see the [Codex article](http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_SubPanel)
   on Menus that will walk you through on how to set it up.
 *  [Matt Knowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aestheticdesign/)
 * (@aestheticdesign)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-sub-page/#post-5908442)
 * Do you know if your site is using the standard WordPress menu or a custom menu?
   If your site is using a custom menu, you need to manually add it to the menu 
   where you want it. You would go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> Menus to configure
   the menu.
 * It looks like your site has a custom theme developed for it, so if that doesn’t
   work, you’ll need to contact the person who set up the site and see how it’s 
   supposed to work.
 *  Thread Starter [CitySquash1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citysquash1/)
 * (@citysquash1)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-sub-page/#post-5908566)
 * Matt – very helpful, thank you. I am sure that this is a custom menu, but the
   individual who created this website (a long while ago) is no longer with our 
   organization, so I cannot reach out to him/her (though I’m trying to dig up who
   it is).
 * In terms of trying to manually add things to the menu, when I go to Dashboard,
   there isn’t an “Appearance” option or a “Menu” option (I’m guessing this is because
   the entire thing is custom). Do you have any thoughts on how else I can begin
   editing the custom menu/what else I can do here to work with this?
 * Thanks
 *  [Matt Knowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aestheticdesign/)
 * (@aestheticdesign)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-sub-page/#post-5908626)
 * Take a look at the header.php file in the theme folder and see if the menu was
   hard coded in there.
 * Does your user have admin capability? I just want to make sure that’s not why
   you don’t have the Appearance option.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Matt Knowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aestheticdesign/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-sub-page/#post-5908626)
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