Change the Default Pages Menu View in wp-admin

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1. [Update]
   Answer rewritten, based on this other Q&A.

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   To achieve this:

   

   Use this code:

   add_filter( 'custom_menu_order', 'wpse_48933_submenu_order' );
   
   function wpse_48933_submenu_order( $menu_ord ) 
   {
       global $submenu;
   
       // Enable the next line to inspect the $submenu values
       // echo '<pre>'.print_r($submenu,true).'</pre>';
   
       $arr = array();
       $arr[] = $submenu['edit.php?post_type=page'][10];
       $arr[] = $submenu['edit.php?post_type=page'][5];
       $submenu['edit.php?post_type=page'] = $arr;
   
       return $menu_ord;
   }
   

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2. In a custom plugin, use this PHP to remove the Pages page.

   add_action( 'admin_menu', 'my_custom_pages' );
   
   function my_custom_pages() {
       remove_menu_page('edit.php?post_type=page'); // Pages
               add_menu_page('Pages', 'Pages', 'author', 'pages', 'my_custom_menu_page' );
   }
   
   function my_custom_menu_page() {
       // The function to load your new page
   }
   

   This will need customizing, but it takes care of removing the original and replacing it with yours.

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3. A different way of doing this is to add your custom query variable into the loading of the page.

   add_action('pre_get_posts', 'my_custom_query_vars' );
   function my_custom_query_vars() {
       $screen = get_current_screen();
       if ( $screen->id == 'edit-page' ) {
           set_query_var( 'orderby', 'custom_page_order' );
       }
   }
   

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