How to change the sort order of the Pages?

December 8th, 2008 By admin

After creating my “Archives”, “Useful Links” and “About” pages => the pages got displayed sorting alphabetically or “About” => then “Archives” => then “Useful Links”.

I was interested in getting the “Archives” page displayed first so the search began. After sometime of digging the WordPress Plugins, I decided to try out the pageMash plugin.

The installation was easy => I then proceeded with re-arranging the pages using pageMash => it was super easy (just drag and drop), I was super excited => saved my changes in pageMash and refreshed my blog’s main page => uh-oh, why didn’t the order get changed? => refreshed again, same => verified pageMash config, refreshed, refreshed, refreshed => same lol

After some digging and viewing the theme code, I located the problem to be with pageMash utilizing the function “wp_list_pages” while my theme utilizes a different coding structure so pageMash never got into play.

After some thinking, I decided to check the WordPress’s Advanced Options feature => Hey what is that “Page Order” option all about? The description said “Pages are usually ordered alphabetically, but you can put a number above to change the order pages appear in. (We know this is a little janky, it’ll be better in future releases.)”