Some of my pages are children of “home”. I want to assign them to a new page. But I cant change the pages parent. Everytime I try and publish, it just switches back to “home”.
I am using the Roots-Theme, I don’t know if that matters.
Edit: I even tried to erase “Home”. The children of home are assigned to “Main” then (I could not change that either). As I recreated home, they were reassigned to it. Maybe its because of the WPML Multilanguage plugin?
I was able to fix this problem only in phpMyAdmin.
Shortly: find the child page in the table ‘wp_posts’ and change the value of ‘post_parent’ to 0 (zero).
Step by step:
- Browse the table ‘wp_posts’, find the child page by title (post_title) or whatever else attribute. Be sure it isn’t a revision (check it in ‘post_status’ column).
- Click the pen in the beginning of this row to edit and find the ‘post_parent’ row, currently 6th from bottom. It must have the parent page ID in the cell. Change the value to 0 (zero).
- Before clicking the ‘Go’ button in the bottom, be sure ‘Save’ is selected in the drop-down menu in the left. It should be by default.
Hope this helps.
It is possible this bug is caused by WPML Multilingual CMS plugin.
