The solution I’ve come up with:
This can be done from within the database. You will want to look for _elementor_page_settings inside the wp_postmeta table. The meta_value will be serialized data, so save a copy of the _elementor_page_settings data before making an edit.
In your data, say you have the following:
{{i:0;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 2";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}
i:1;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 3";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}
i:2;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 1";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}
i:3;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 4";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}}
What you’d like to do is move the following to the top of the list:
i:2;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 1";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}
What you will do is moving it as shown below:
{{i:2;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 1";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}
i:0;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 2";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}
i:1;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 3";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}
i:3;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 4";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}}
If you add your new update as it is above, you will break the majority of your list because the index is in the following order: 2,0,1,3. You still need to update the index value to be 0,1,2,3:
Look for i:N, where N is your numbering from 0 to the last number in your list. After changing the index for all colors in your list, you will have the following:
{{i:0;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 1";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}
i:1;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 2";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}
i:2;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 3";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}
i:3;a:3:{s:3:"_id";s:7:"de51da3";s:5:"title";s:6:"Blue 4";s:5:"color";s:7:"#123456";}}
You may have 5, or you may have 50 colors in your global colors list. You’ll have to update that value for all color records. And make sure to not change the name of your color or any other value here. All serialized data in this list has a character counter associated with it. Only change the names from within Elementor’s editor as it will handle the serialized data changes for you.