Re: CSS Active page on Nav in WordPress

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When you create a page in the WP backend there is an option on the right hand hand side underneath where you chose page parent and page template to give your pages a number to order them, so 1 comes first 2 second etc. Using that you can order your nav menu however you want.
To have wp_list_pages show only the pages you want, use the include paramater listing only the pages you want by id.
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Code:

You might want to check out the codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages