True, the sort order may go wrong, but for something like a blog/news this isn't important as you'll always want them in a date-order.

Also, it's not that difficult now to build in an extra field in SiteTree in which you can set an 'order' filter.

Note that what I'm doing here, doesn't influence the frontend site (at least not for me ), and when you leave it at '0' it won't do anything and keep the normal order.

I'm in need for a good solution to the "many subpages" problem as well. Hopefully this will be addressed in 2.3.
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