Confluence allows you to present your pages in any order (sequence) you choose. The position of a page is reflected in the following places:

Changing the Page Order

You can change the order of the pages — simply move the page to its new position while editing the page or while viewing pages in the space's Tree view.

Alphabetical versus Manual Order

By default, Confluence will present your pages in alphabetical order. When you move a page to a different position, the order becomes manual for the affected page family.

More about the alphabetical order

When ordering pages alphabetically, Confluence actually applies a more sophisticated 'natural' order rather than a straight alphabetical order. The natural order handles numeric values correctly when doing string comparisons.

Now let's consider what happens when you add a page to a page family, by creating a new page or by moving or copying a page into the family:

  • If the page family's order is alphabetical, the new page will appear in alphabetical order too.
  • If the page family's order is manual, the new page will appear at the bottom of the list of pages in the family.

Cannot revert to alphabetical order

Once the order has been set to manual, you cannot set it back to alphabetical. There is an open request (CONF-10499) to allow reversion to alphabetical order. If you would like to see this developed, please vote for the request.

RELATED TOPICS

Overview of Pages
Overview of Page Families
Moving a Page
Moving Pages within a Space

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