How to manage the order of my pages as I want them to appear

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  sandimat · Member · Oct 30, 2011 at 11:00 pm

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  On my blog I have the homepage, then I added an about me page. Now I’d like to add a few more pages (ie, one for homeschooling). My problem is this: when I add a new page, all other pages, minus the home page, move to the right. How do I manage the order of my pages as I want them to appear? TIA!!

  Sandi

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  timethief · Member · Oct 31, 2011 at 12:07 am

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  You can use the “order” found in the page attributes box if you want to create only Pages and order them numerically rather than alphabetically. However, I recommend creating a custom menu instead as overall it’s a more elegant way to manage order.

  Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  What’s critical is:
  (1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  (2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.

  A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or custom links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus