How To Change the Order of Your Nav Bar Items in WordPress

by Don Campbell on July 24, 2009 · 4 comments

By default, WordPress tries to order the Pages in your Navigation bar alphabetically by title. But what if you want to re-order them?

Well, don’t worry, it is possible. It’s a bit quirky, but you have total control over which order your navigation items appear in most WP Themes. The key is setting the Order Attribute when editing a Page in the WordPress editor.

This video shows you how to do it:

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Keith Davis October 24, 2009 at 1:43 am

Quick, easy, useful, well explained.
Nothing else to say.

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shannon December 30, 2009 at 10:47 am

thanks for the video. I trying to edit my word press blog now. thanks again.

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johnny May 31, 2010 at 2:13 pm

thankyou
thankyou
thankyou
all day long I’ve been searching solutions and this is soooo easy
its my first blog for my mom’s new BB in Rome and after cancelling a page by mistake when I re-created it she took the HOME position.
now I’m happyhappyhappy
BTW..do you know if a sitemap page is really necessary or if the xml sitemap plugin is good enough for google and seo.?
thnx again
Cheers

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Sonia June 16, 2010 at 8:35 am

Thank you for your help. It was quick and easy. I tried looking for other options and yours is the best one. !

thanks again.

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