Sequencing of pages
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Hi! I like to rearrange the sequence of the pages I’ve set up for the site but don’t know how to, so please advice. Thank you!
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when you edit your page, go to page order at the sidebar. label that page 1 if you want that first, 2 if second and so on and so forth.
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Yeah, I am bemused too. I only have two pages! One page has all the blog posts and is called “Home”, the other page I can freely manipulate.
What Sulz suggests seems only to apply to the non-blog, non-post pages I add.
What I want is to make the blog posts page the second one on the menu bar, and called something like “Latest News”, meanwhile a static first page, called “Home” is also called up from the top left menu bar (instead of the posts)…
…if you see what I mean (?)
Basically: how do you change the posts page name and display order?
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“page order” will only work with some themes (Blix is the only one I’ve found so far). Most themes use alphabetical order no matter what, so a quick fix is to change your page names so they alphabetically display in the order you want.
The other option is using a text widget.
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Thanks engtech, problem is that I cannot change the posts’ page name from it’s default “Home”.
For example, I changed the “About” page to “Home” and hey presto… I have TWO “Homes” on my menu bar! :(
I want to change the posts’ page name then the order they come on the menu bar!
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@dcdevine:
Try this. Create a “Latest News” page. After that, go to:
Dashboard -> Options -> ReadingYou can change your front page there. Make your “Start” page your front page and your “Latest News” page your posts page. This will show up on your site as Home, Start, Latest News.
[edited: actually it may be Home, Latest News, Start but that’s not all that important :)]
If you want it to just say Home, Latest News, see this thread to get rid of “double page” (it gives you two ways):
http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=1571&replies=12#post-8542I used the first way (just erase name of page) today on a blog I just set up. It worked.
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@eclecticgeek:
I went to the right menu and selected “Page Slug” and typed in “News” Then I hit the “Publish” Button — without typing in anything else anywhere.Then I went to “Options” on the menu bar, and when it loaded, I selected “Reading” from the sub menu bar.
Under the “Front Page” header I selected the radio button for “Front Page Displays:”
* A Static Page (Select Below).
Then I used the pull-down menus to pick the static
“Front page” [Home] and the “Posts Page” [News]This seems to be what I wanted. I do have a right side menu gap (because I left empty space in the page name/ header), but I suppose I will have to live with it!
Scary stuff — what if you lose all your posts? Aaargh?? I took a real walk-off the plank, and it’s my lucky day.
Thanks! This really ought to be more clearly expressed somewhere.
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Oh by the way — if you decide to try to be rid of the blank in the right side menu by giving the static home page an actual name… then guess what? Yep — you get TWO of the same pages! It’s mad mental. Hahhaa!
Say you go in and name your blank static homepage as “New”, then you get a menu with “Home” and “New” on it — click on either takes you to the same page.
Delete the page and you lose your static homepage.
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How to change the sequence of pages in the Regulus theme is found in this thread http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=3377&replies=15#post-21768
Changing page order – regulus theme
In the regulus theme if you click manage -> pages> select a page ->edit
now look to the far right hand side
do you see “Discussion +” ?
good then look down the row
the last one in the row there is “page order”
click the + sign and type in the number you want
– don’t forget to click “save” under the edit box
VOILA!
if you don’t assign an order then the pages will appear in alphabetical order and “yes” you’ll have do do each and every page in this manner. -
Thanks Timethief — but it doesn’t help!
@eclecticgeek — Oh No! Something out of left field… it is not restricted to the sidebar widget!!!!
I accessed the site at work using Internet Explorer (at home I use Firefox) — and in IE the top menubar on each page has a SPACE and in the posts page, there is also a SPACE!
This looks BAD… but how to solve it? If I give the page a header/ name (say, “xxx”), then it will replace the spaec in the sidebar menu and top bar menu with xxx — but it will really be the static first page (which, by the way will now have an annoying xxx headline)!
So it’s having two of the same page or a space! AAaaaargh!
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OK, so I decided to try making the unheaded static first page a child of aqnother page, and this clear up the IE topbar menu space problem, but it does put the sidebar widget space as a child, treelike. It looks a bit funny in IE — a wee folder with a space beside it, but in Firefox it actually interfreres with the parent link! Aaargh!
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Thanks Timethief — but it doesn’t help!
Page order all comes down to which theme you are using. Most themes don’t support page order
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SUMMARY
(1) Create a new page, leaving it as a blank parent page
(2) Create a new page, as a child of the blank parent page. This will be the site’s static front page. Being a child is an IE work-around to remove spaces from the top bar menu.
(3) DO NOT USE THE SIDEBAR MENU WIDGET; it doesn’t work.
(4) You can change the display order of the entries on the topbar menu by editing each page individually and ranking it’s priority.It is such a shame that the sidebar menu doesn’t work; I wanted a minimal topbar menu and a more sub-menued sidebar menu. If only we could have topbar menu drop downs or the sidebar widget fixed!!!
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@dcdevine
Yep, I knew your theme was Blix. Yep, I knew the page sequencing thing was theme dependent and MOST themes don’t support it and there is no list of the ones that do as yet. So why did I post the steps of how to do it in the Regulus theme in this thread?
I did this so when this thread goes into the forum search box both threads will be cross referenced to each other for the next person who asks the same question. Who knows what theme they may have? And thinking of a master page sequence yes or no list, if we keep cross referencing threads eventually we may have a cumulative over-view of all the themes and whether your work-around will work for them or not. That is, of course, unless engtech wants to run another of his comparative theme tests including “page sequencing” as a factor before then. :) -
Actually, I have been including “page sequencing”, I just called it “Page order displayed properly” :)
I didn’t get a chance to do a theme review this week (blaaargh, turkey) but hopefully by wednesday what I’ll have is a help page with screenshots of what each field means. Then maybe the community could help me come up with names that immediately make sense (like page sequencing) instead of what I originally put.
I also want to cut out some of the info I’ve been tracking if people don’t find it useful.
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