Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-957747-20180112214558/@comment-28083312-20180115110527

You can’t in the footer, just the header, but that’s really all that matters since if you wanted to see an article in a different language, you can hardly be expected to go through the entire article just to get to the links at the bottom. They really don’t matter much to us, only the header, but it’d be nice for them to also be ordered.

The point of the template is to standardize the order in which the links are placed on the page so that you cannot use any order except the one we specified, which in turn controls the order in which the links are placed in the header dropdown (we no longer use flags JS anymore because the header covers it natively / wouldn’t be allowed anyway). Only this would no longer work the way it did once this update goes live. Since all links use that template, we can edit just the template to change the order on every single page.