[wp-testers] Page Ordering

Spamboy ninodespam at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 15:35:37 GMT 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jennifer Hodgdon <yahgrp at poplarware.com>
wrote:

>
>  The difference here is that WordPress _does_ have a way to order pages in
> > > > core
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is not a way to *change* page ordering but to create pages at a
> > > specific "place" (which can be changes like everything else by editing
> > > the
> > > page)
> > >
> >
> > To quote the actual Page Edit screen in WP 2.5.1:
> >
> > "Pages are usually ordered alphabetically, but you can put a number
> > above to change the order pages appear in. (We know this is a little janky,
> > it'll be better in future releases.)"
> >
>
> Here's a thought. Without implementing complex drag-and-drop, another easy
> way to change the page ordering in the admin back end would be to display an
> editable column of the existing page order numbers on the Manage Pages
> screen. You could update numbers for a few pages at a go, click "Submit",
> and voila.
>
> Of course, this Manage Pages screen was already deemed to be too cluttered
> to have room for the crucial ID field, so probably the Powers that Be would
> be opposed to adding this column too... but it would be useful.
>


Some clarification of the discussion may be helpful.  It seems there is
confusion about what "page order" means.

In my mind, page ordering in WordPress is a way to order pages in a way
besides the default alphabetical order (such as numerical order).  This is
different than defining page *relationships*, where there is a defined
hierarchy between pages (such as parent-child or page-subpage).

It doesn't make sense that page order changes would affect SEO, unless there
is some SEO hit based on where links to that page fall.  For example: if an
unordered list contains page links, changing the page order wouldn't remove
that page link from the list but it would change its position.  I can't
imagine there's a hit for that, unless the markup around that page link
changes (ex: putting it in header markup, etc.).  But changing the page
relationships would break permalinks and would obviously cause SEO changes.

Are we all on the same page when discussing "page order"?  It seems the
conversation has blurred the lines.

SB


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