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thanks to a member here i display my Parent Pages in a 2 column grid with title and excerpt. But for some reason i can't figure out how to sort all 5 Pages by the menu order for example or the order number i assigned. i display them by using

query_posts( 'post_type=page&post_parent=0' );

so that the child Pages won't displayed. but i can't figure out how to order them.. Any ideas??? thanks in advance! Dan

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Dan,

First a advice: don't use query_posts to get your pages. Use get_pages instead. Here is how you can do what you are asking using get_pages.

get_pages( array( 'parent' => 0, 'sort_column' => 'menu_order' ) );

You can also specify whether you want to sort in ascending order or in descending order. Default sorting order is ascending.

get_pages( array( 'parent' => 0, 'sort_column' => 'menu_order', 'sort_order' => 'desc' ) );

For more information check get_pages on codex.

In case if you want to keep using query_posts, here is how you can order pages by menu order, you will need to use orderby argument.

query_posts( 'post_type=page&post_parent=0&orderby=menu_order' );
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  • Thanks Hameedullah, unfortuantely it doesn't work this way. i have tried exactly this before after reading through get_pages codex. For some reason this method only calls the same parent page where it is loaded, so that i have the same page twice on a page. all other pages (children and parents) are not being displayed, although i was sure it should work exactly this way, but it doesnt... Any ideas what that could be?
    – Dan
    Dec 29, 2011 at 23:55
  • can you show your template code which is displaying the page? at least the part before get_pages. Because get_pages should return all your parent pages and you can also exclude the page on which you are displaying this list of parent pages.
    – Hameedullah Khan
    Dec 30, 2011 at 6:15
  • Hi, this is the code how i use it now. if i change the query_post to your mentioned code it will give me only the same page again. hope that helps. thanks a lot! <br/> <div id="container2"> <div id="content2"> <br/> <?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts(array( 'post_parent' => 6, 'post_type' => 'page')); get_template_part( 'leistungen', 'grid' ); wp_reset_query(); ?> <br/> </div><!-- #content2 --> </div><!-- #container2 -->
    – Dan
    Dec 30, 2011 at 8:06
  • Dan, I am not sure what is caussing this strange behaviour, but I have updated my answer to include query_posts example to demonstrate how can you order pages based on their menu_order.
    – Hameedullah Khan
    Dec 30, 2011 at 13:21
  • Dan, it looks like the code you posted in the comments here you're setting the 'post_parent' => 6; is that what you want (only child pages of page 6) or all the parent pages? Then it should be 'post_parent' => 0
    – Jen
    Nov 21, 2012 at 16:37

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