Trouble Ordering Pages/Menus

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  robinbupp · Member · Feb 27, 2015 at 7:31 pm

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  The wordpress I am working on has a lot of pages that go with it. As I was working, I was having no problem assigning parent pages and getting the menus ordered fine. Suddenly (in the last 3 or 4 days), I have very few options of which pages can be assigned as parent pages, and some of my pages seem to be jumping out of their assigned parents onto the main menu and I can’t get them back to where they belong… Is there a limit to the number of pages that can be assigned to a parent? Have I used the menu/parent page functions improperly? Is there a better way to organize pages than by simply using the “assign parent page” tab?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 27, 2015 at 7:39 pm

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  Please read this entry so you are clear on the differences
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  re: changing the order of Pages, not Posts

  There are two approaches.
  1. If you have only pages in your horizontal menu and that’ is all you want in it see here to use numerical order. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/#order
  See also https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/#parent

  2. Creating a Custom Menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
  Adding Pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages
  Changing the Order & Creating Sub-Menus http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Custom menu Troubleshooting – My pages are in the wrong order
  Check the sub-pages themselves to see if you have established a Parent page and child page “hierarchical structure” in the page attributes module. Remove if required.

  Also remove any “order” numbers you have assigned that may conflict with the order you are creating by dropping and dragging. Or simply change them so they are the same order as you establish in the menu. Establish consistency – problem solved.

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  robinbupp · Member · Feb 27, 2015 at 8:06 pm

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  I tried using the information to change the order in the sub menu – although I created my menu in the exact order and sub-order I wanted it, that is not how it came up, and more pages fell out of their sub menus and onto the main menu. I am beyond frustrated, this is hours and hours of work that suddenly are not formatted correctly… I’m ready to drop wordpress and try something else – not wasting more time

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  timethief · Member · Feb 27, 2015 at 8:09 pm

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  There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and there are some tweaks you can use to improve your custom menu as well. Here is more information:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

  I’m sorry you are frustrated. However, the instructions I posted above definitely work. Please take a break and then try using them.