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How to Reorder Sections on Your LinkedIn Profile
How to reorder sections on your LinkedIn profile in 2026: what you can still move, what LinkedIn now locks, and the Featured trick that actually controls order.
By Animesh Kudake, Co-founder, Apna Project
The short version
- The old drag-and-drop where you could freely rearrange every top-level section is mostly gone; LinkedIn now fixes the order of most core sections.
- The section you can genuinely control is Featured, which sits high on your profile and lets you choose and order what shows there.
- Experience and Education entries sort by date, not by hand, so you influence their order through the dates and how you structure roles.
- You can hide sections you do not want, which changes what appears near the top even when you cannot drag things around.
- Because layouts shift, the reliable lever is not dragging sections: it is deciding what deserves the Featured slot and a strong headline.
Reordering entries inside a section
Within Experience and Education, the order is driven by dates, not by dragging.
Roles sort chronologically, with current positions up top. If an entry sits in the wrong place, the cause is almost always the dates: a missing end date, a role not marked as current, or overlapping ranges that sort in a way you did not expect. Fix the dates and the order corrects itself.
Multiple roles at the same company group together under that employer, which is why a promotion at one company stacks neatly instead of scattering across your timeline. That grouping is usually what you want. If you are cleaning up a messy profile, this is also a good moment to make sure your first entry earns the top slot, the same instinct behind putting your strongest credential first on your profile.
What to do when a section is simply stuck
Sometimes you cannot move a section because LinkedIn will not let you. Here is how to work with that instead of against it.
- Hide what you do not need. You cannot always reorder, but you can remove or hide sections that add clutter, which changes what appears near the top by subtraction.
- Lead with your headline and About. These sit above almost everything and you fully control them. A sharp headline and a strong first line of your About do more for first impressions than any section shuffle.
- Use Featured as your override. When a section you care about is buried by LinkedIn's fixed order, recreate its highlight in Featured, where you control placement.
The mindset shift is the important part. Stop trying to drag the whole page into a custom layout, because LinkedIn took that away. Decide instead what deserves the top of the page and use the tools that still work to put it there. Our broader LinkedIn profile guide walks through that prioritization in full.
A note from us
We build a LinkedIn commenting tool, not a profile editor, so here is the honest observation from where we sit: the profile people actually judge you on is rarely the one they scroll top to bottom. It is the snapshot they form after your comment or post catches their eye and they click through.
That means the order of your sections matters less than most reordering guides imply. What matters is that the first screen, your headline, your About, and your Featured picks, tells a clear story in the two seconds someone gives it. Get that right and the exact sequence of the lower sections stops being worth the fight.
LinkedIn's layout will keep shifting, and any step-by-step written today may look different next year. The durable advice does not: control what you can (Featured, dates, hiding), write the top of your profile like it is the only part people read, and let go of the drag-and-drop that is not coming back.
Frequently asked questions
Can I change the order of sections on LinkedIn?
Only partly. LinkedIn fixes the order of most core sections like About, Activity, Experience, and Education, so you cannot freely drag them the way you once could. What you do control is the Featured section, which sits near the top, plus which sections are shown or hidden.
Why won't LinkedIn let me reorder my experience?
Experience entries are sorted by date, not by hand. If a role sits in the wrong place, the fix is usually the dates, so check start and end dates, and whether a current role is marked as ongoing. Multiple roles at one company group together under that employer.
How do I manage sections on my LinkedIn profile?
Use "Add profile section" to add or remove sections, and edit each one from the pencil icon next to it. You cannot drag the main sections into any order you like, but you can hide ones you do not need and curate the Featured section, which is the part you have real control over.
What is the Featured section and where does it appear?
Featured is a section near the top of your profile, just under About, where you can pin posts, links, media, and documents. You choose what goes there and the order it appears in, which makes it the most reliable way to put your best material high on the page.
Written by the team building Commenti on real LinkedIn growth data. Found an error? Tell us and we’ll fix it. Accuracy beats winning.
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Co-founder, Apna Project
Co-founder at Apna Project, where he helps founders and agencies turn ideas into products. Writes here on LinkedIn growth and what actually earns attention in a comment section. Commenti is the LinkedIn comment automation tool by Ampliflow.
If you have searched how to reorder sections on your LinkedIn profile, you have probably hit the same wall everyone does: the drag-and-drop that older guides promise is not really there anymore.
Years ago, LinkedIn let you grab any section header and slide it up or down. That freedom is mostly gone. Today the platform fixes the order of most core sections, and pretending otherwise just leads to a frustrating afternoon of clicking things that will not move.
So here is the honest version of what you can do now, what you cannot, and the one lever that still gives you real control over what people see first.
The short answer: what you can and cannot move
Start with the reality. The big sections, About, Activity, Experience, Education, Skills, and the rest, appear in an order LinkedIn largely decides. You cannot drag Education above Experience or push Skills to the top just because you want to.
What you can control comes down to three things: the Featured section, the order of entries inside a section, and which sections show at all. None of them is the free drag-and-drop of old, but together they cover most of what people are actually trying to achieve, which is usually "get my best stuff higher up."
If your real goal is a stronger profile top to bottom, the section order is a smaller lever than the content itself, which is why we put most of the emphasis in our LinkedIn profile best practices on what each section says, not where it sits.
The one section you truly control: Featured
The Featured section is the answer to most reordering questions, because it is the one part of the profile where you pick both the contents and the order.
Featured sits high, just under your About section, and it can hold posts, external links, media, and documents. Whatever you put there shows up in a prominent strip that visitors see early. To use it well:
If there is one thing you want a visitor to notice, Featured is where you put it. It is the closest thing LinkedIn gives you to "move this to the top," and it is far more reliable than hoping a core section will budge.