@scruffy – I unfortunately think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how RapidWeaver organizes pages and folders. Let’s see if I can clear it up for you.
RapidWeaver has not changed how it handles pages and folders for as long as I can remember and I started building themes in 2006, and sites for myself using RapidWeaver before that.
Below you’ll see a RapidWeaver window. Highlighted is the PAGES list.
Each of these, as you would suspect is an individual PAGE as indicated by the header above them. These are not, and have never been FOLDERS.
In the Page Inspector you can choose two things for your PAGE. It’s file name and its folder name. The exception to this is the home page, which will never allow you to change the folder name as it is the root of the site. You can see these two properties in the Page Inspector here for our imaginary site’s Photo Gallery page:
Each PAGE should have a unique FOLDER name. This is where your page will live on your site. Additionally it is how you will nest FOLDERS, but we’ll get back to this in a bit.
Your page’s filename should almost alway be either index.html
or index.php
and not something like home.html
or photo-gallery.php
.
Additionally you should not be placing a /
in the folder name field.
By structuring our PAGE the way we have the Photo Gallery page we’ve created for our fictitious site would be found here: https://oursite.com/photo-gallery
Since we’ve named our page index.html
the visitor will not have to type the filename for our page. Had we opted for photo-gallery.html
then the user would have to type the following to access the page directly: https://oursite.com/photo-gallery/photo-gallery.html
.
As for nesting PAGES. To do so you drag and drop a page onto another page in the Pages List in RapidWeaver. I’m going to make a Contact Us page for our fake site:
But I’ve decided I want to have it nested within the About Us page. So I drag and drop it on the About Us page, like so:
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You’ll notice the About Us page now has a drop down arrow and the Contact Us page is indented. The Contact Us page is now nested. So what does this mean for our site’s FOLDER structure now?
Well my pages are named like so for the About Us and Contact Us pages:
This means our FOLDER structure for our pages would be as follows in our URL: https://oursite.com/about-us/contact
As you can see our contact
FOLDER is nested within our about-us
FOLDER here because of our site’s PAGE structure.
Hope that demystifies how PAGES and FOLDERS are handled in RapidWeaver.
With that out of the way, I am going to make the same request that @jacksona did above – Please don’t double post in two different forums. It is generally best to post a question about a specific product to that product’s support forum. That said, you can post whatever questions you want here – Elixir, Stacks, RapidWeaver, etc. and vice versa on the Realmac Community site. Just don’t double post. It’s bad form.