Define a Permalink Structure by Post and Page

Question

All, I have a post that works fine with a permalink setup. However, I also have a page called gallery. What I would each post can have a page. So for example I have a post named business-name so my URL would look like this:

http://website.com/business-name

I then want to click on a gallery link for this and that is a page I have created in wordpress. So I was looking to have a URL structure like this:

http://website.com/business-name/gallery

If I change my permalink structure to something like this: /%postname%/%page%/

Then I go to the second link in my question it overwrites the URL to this: http://website.com/gallery

Is something like this possible with a post and then a page?

Thanks

Answer 1

Since posts are not hierarchical and pages are - even if you're linking to a page from a post, there's nothing telling WordPress that they're related. So the urls you're going to get will be www.site.com/page or www.site.com/post.

If you'd like to relate them, you can either use Pages for both and take advantage of the hierarchy Wordpress provides (see link below). Or you can have a custom post type and set the hierarchy parameter to true. You can also set your custom post type to behave like a page if that's the reason why you're trying to use post > page.

• WordPress explains the "Post Types" available, e.g. post and page
• How to create a child page

You may have other options, but I'm not sure what the circumstances are for your site, and why you'd be using a post and a page as two separate entities and trying to relate them. Perhaps if you can explain why you're trying to build it as post > page, I can provide more options for you.

Also don't forget about categories, if you're using a post simply to have the url be www.site.com/something/gallery, you can also take advantage of categories.

Hope that helps!