Title: Ordering Pages
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Ordering Pages

 *  [censored](https://wordpress.org/support/users/censored/)
 * (@censored)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-1/)
 * Hi, I’m a complete novice and total newbie so please be gentle!
 * [http://www.brightonwaves.co.uk](http://www.brightonwaves.co.uk) was set up for
   me by a friend and seemed all to be working ok.
 * However I’ve got a problem with the Listings pages at the top of the sidebar.
   I want them ordered with the newest at the top. That seemed to be happening ok,
   until I added the September page which for some reason went second in the list.
   I can’t see any way of changing it in the control panel so it must be a code 
   thing. But nothing should have changed.
 * Any ideas what I’ve done?!

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-1/#post-456097)
 * If you go to Manage -> Pages and look over to the right, there is a field for“
   Page Order”.
 * Have you tried setting that for your pages?
 *  Thread Starter [censored](https://wordpress.org/support/users/censored/)
 * (@censored)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-1/#post-456315)
 * They’re all set to 0 – but always were all set to 0. So is it just a coincidence
   that they were appearing in the right order?
 * Surely if I number them, I’ll have to re-number them all when I add a new one,
   as that would become 1, the previous 1 would be 2 etc etc?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-1/#post-456318)
 * Well then I reckon you’ll want to see how your theme is listing those pages. 
   Ideally, it is using wp_list_pages (documented here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages))
 * Check that link – there’s an option to list pages by post date which sounds like
   what you’re after?
 * `<ul>
    <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=post_date&show_date=created'); ?>  </
   ul>
 *  Thread Starter [censored](https://wordpress.org/support/users/censored/)
 * (@censored)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-1/#post-456327)
 * Fantastic! Thank you! It’s a first delve into the code and it’s not quite as 
   difficult as it looks… much appreciated

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