How to Reorder Pages in a WordPress Blog
By default all the pages which you publish in a WordPress Blog are shown to you in an alphabetical order (ascending order) by default.
WordPress uses an attribute for every page that is named as “Order” , by default the “Order” attribute of every page is “0”, so it arranges all the pages alphabetically in ascending order. Now to override the default behavior the only thing you need to do is assign some value to the “Order” attribute.
Let me explain this with the help of an example:
You have 5 Pages “Page A”, “Page B”, “Page C” , “Page D” , “Page E”, by default they will be shown in the same order as listed above (ascending order). Now if you want to show to “Page C” before “Page A”, simply change the Order attribute of “Page C” to 0 (which is by default) and , change all the other pages Order attribute to 1.
That’s it and your pages are reordered and will be shown in this order “Page C“, “Page A”, “Page B”, “Page D” , “Page E”.
Disadvantage: The only disadvantage of doing it manually and not using a plugin is that if you have large number of pages, giving Order attribute values and maintaining it can be a nightmare.
Following are the simple steps show to change the Order Attribute Value:
1. Go To Dashboard > Pages > Edit as show below:
2. Click on Quick Edit and Change the Order As shown below and click on Update Page.
I hope you have enjoyed learning this small tip to reorder your pages.
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Initially i thought there should be someother plugin to do this job., but i later found out about this.
And wat abt category order, can they be done only using 3rd party plugin or is there an option in wordpress by defailt ?
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I looked for Category Order but that does not seems to be possible through dashboard as of now.
It is just amazing how powerful and flexible Wordpress has become.
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Wordpress is improving day by day and I guess lots more surprises to come
It is quite simple, but I think that many people don’t know how to do this, so I thank you for telling us this small skill, maybe somebody is now worrying about this
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Glad you like it
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I think many bloggers are least bothered about this or they don’t know about this..
any way
Nice tip…
Yeah, many bloggers are not aware of this but I hope everyone use it because it is really helpful .
This is Cool! i was struggling how to order it! now got it!
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Glad it is helpful for you
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thank it simple yet really helpful.. never use the positioning before just display as it was…
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It would be helpful when there are lots of hierarchical pages in your blog. Try it out.
Nice and neat tip.
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Glad you like it .
this is fare enough job to work on the pages to order and include the m in navigation menu, some themes have an option to include/exclude particular pages or reorder the menu.. one such theme is Thesis which i am using at my blog..
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Thesis is one of the excellent theme, no comparison of thesis theme .
This is very easy and simple to do. With thesis theme, you can also rearrange the pages in the menu by drop and drag.
This helps when you have many pages and children pages.
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That’s true , the best use is when you have many children pages and want to arrange it effectively.
Thank you Ruchi for the nice tutorial. It will be great help for wordpress users.
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I hope that bloggers find it useful
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Never knew about any such option in WordPress :O.
i like to do my work manually without plugins as much as possible, your guide will be helpful, thanks,
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Actually I use plugin for ordering Categories and pages. This make my work simple. Thanks Ruchi
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