Normally it's all in alpha order.
I just made 3 pages:
This is page One<br /> This is page Two<br /> This is page Three
I also had an About page and Page#1

They displayed as
About<br /> Page#1<br /> This is page One<br /> This is page Three<br /> This is page Two

I went to Manage > Pages
Clicked Edit for This is page Two
In the TITLE for that page, I put the cursor at the very start of that line.
I press SPACE once.
Save page.
Page order is now
This is page Two<br /> About<br /> Page#1<br /> This is page One<br /> This is page Three

I edited 'This is page THREE' in the same way but put 4 spaces. It then rose to the top.

More spaces = higher up.

Yes it's ugly, yes there should be a better way, yes someone will moan at this but it works.

Right now, I'm just trying to re-name the page titles so they'll slip into something closer to the desired order. It's not really a fix. But I can't bear having a "1" "2" or "3" etc. at the beginning of each page name.

Hope someone responds. And, lest I forget: Thank You, malesalmon for providing that fix, even if I haven't yet used it. Seriously!

wp_list_pages('title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>');

Now, add the line "&sort_column=menu_order" to the arguments so that it looks like this

wp_list_pages('title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>&sort_column=menu_order');

That will sort your Pages by the order that you specify in the Page order field on each Page's edit page.

Simple solution WordPress.org

1. Integrate the "Order My Links" plugin
2. Have it also apply to WordPress Pages

If you don't the competion will overrun
you sooner or later. They want it bad.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=55&view=showday&d=7&m=3&y=2006

I'd prefer that you listen to the multitude of
Wordpress users asking for these features.
It's not a "nice-to-have" thing like fading
menus, it is a "core requirement".

Danno

Regard the Page Order + feature on the edit Page view. When I update page order, it seems to only reorder the pages on the Manage => Pages view within the blog, but does NOT reorder the pages that are displayed on the live blog.

I would think this feature would update the order of Pages as seen on the blog, yes or ? Thanks.

Select edit, to edit each page in turn. There is a blue Page Order selection bar on the right side of the edit Pages page.
Select the + to expand.

Note that by default each page order value is set to 0, so the pages display in alpha order by default.

Set this value (ie, 1, 2, 3, etc) on each page to order the pages other than by alpha.

Cheers!

I'd like to change the order of my pages without having to delete all of them and recreate them in the proper order. Any workarounds?