change page number

Can U post a link to your site, please?

jenncastro.com

so you’re running on WordPress 3.5.1

When I add a new page, the default seems to be to make that the first page shifting around the other parts of my webpage.

this is not cleaR To me, can you try to explain exactly what happens you don’t want?

I see only a duplicate when I click on the page About the author

sorry for my english…

I would like page 1 to be about the author, instead it’s thought full, the page I added this morning. Originally the second page was About the Author. Since I added the new page, the second page is Thought Full. Thanks for any help you can provide. When I looked a the forum, one person said to go to the admin part of wordpress. Where is this on the site? Can’t find that either. Thanks.

to go to the admin part (the dashboard) of your site, just type
jenncastro.com/wp-admin, or click on the “login” link you have in your sidebar.

once you’re in the admin area, click on “pages” menu, and from there when you mouse over a page, there’s a “quick edit” link.
you click it, and it opens a box with changes you can make.

on the right, under the “parent” field, there’s another field input with a number to order the page. try to change “about the author” to a lower number than “thought full”.
it should work as you want.

glad if this helps you

Thank you. I appreciate your taking time to help. Could you tell me; how you figure’d this out?

figured what?

Could you tell me how you figured out how to change the page number.

Oh..sorry.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Getting_Started_with_WordPress
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages_Screen
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Administration_Screens
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide

but actually therre is not this information there, I think.

anyway I found those guides useful, and much more the support forum
you’re also asking to. for the rest I click to try things, but I do not recommend this!!! I had some problems sometimes getting back…

Much more, I recommend to study the best you can for the level you need to, which is basically the user admin.
it is really time-saving for later to spend a couple of afternoons reading deeply the guides made by these wonderful folks at wordpress!!!

glad that It helped you, and if it is everything ok with this thread, don’t forget to mark it as “resolved”.

have fun with children’s book, and the all the best for your life.

Thanks for all your good suggestions.

Also go to Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks (jenncastro.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php) and you can make your links appear any way you wish while they are in a browser’s address bar and people bookmark them.