Title: Ordering Pages
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Ordering Pages

 *  [judyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/judyo/)
 * (@judyo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-2/)
 * I cannot find the answer to my particular problem. I tried using the Google search
   but it didn’t bring anything up. I have read about adding the code to the sidebar
   to have your pages in the order you’ve chosen for each page.
 * However, I already have the “exclude pages” argument in there & if I add the “
   List Pages by Menu Order” argument it overrides the exclusion argument & all 
   my pages, even the excluded ones, get listed in my sidebar. On top of that, the
   order I designated for each page still doesn’t work.
 * Can you only choose one of these arguments or am I inserting the code improperly?
   I’ve tried several different ways (trying to include it with the exclusion argument)
   but then I get parse errors.
 * Having a specific page order is important for my site (real estate related).

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 *  [dyin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dyin/)
 * (@dyin)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-2/#post-343342)
 * here is the code you’ll need:
 * <?php wp_list_pages(’sort_column=menu_order&title_li=Your Title’); ?>
 * I used it too.
 * I combined it with the exclude code like this (I found it myself :p):
 * <?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&exclude=3,4&title_li=Your Title’);?
   >
 * edit: I used it to make pages to different links so it looks like a site instead
   of a blog.
    [http://www.mingei.be/home](http://www.mingei.be/home) (there is 
   still a lot to do)
 *  Thread Starter [judyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/judyo/)
 * (@judyo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-2/#post-343399)
 * Thank you so much! Just what I needed. I’m pretty new to this & trying to learn
   but I drive myself nuts with this code. I tried something similar to that but
   not exactly so of course it didn’t work.
 * I, too, am trying to make my blog look more like a website. It is also under 
   construction:
    [http://www.oak-lawn-il.com](http://www.oak-lawn-il.com)
 * Again, thanks.
 *  [kwc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwc/)
 * (@kwc)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-2/#post-343821)
 * Hello,
 * I’ve added the sortcolumn=menu_order tag also into sidebar.php:
 * <?php wp_list_pages(‘sortcolumn=menu_order&title_li=<h2>’ . __(‘Pages’) . ‘</
   h2>’ ); ?>
 * but it appears to have no impact on the order of the pages. They all still sort
   alphabetically. Any thoughts as to what I might be doing wrong?
 * Also, will this tag sort child pages? I’m wondering if it isn’t designed to handle
   that… perhaps that’s the problem I’m having.
 * I’m using v. 2.01 of WordPress.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-2/#post-343822)
 * _what I might be doing wrong?_
    `sortcolumn`
 * Try to copy/[aste the correct spelling from here: [Template_Tags/wp_list_pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages).
   
   Reading it carefully there might be answers for your other questions, too.
 *  [kwc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwc/)
 * (@kwc)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-2/#post-343823)
 * Now that was too simple of a fix… thanks for the quick (and accurate!) response!
 *  [justeric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justeric/)
 * (@justeric)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-2/#post-343908)
 * sortcolumn should be sort_column

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [justeric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justeric/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-pages-2/#post-343908)
 * Status: not resolved

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