Baskerville theme – is an edit of post order possible?

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    blackwidowwebsites · Member ·

    Hi All,

    I am using this theme as a first-year university library portal. My ‘posts’ are individual topics that sit within a hierarchy where related topics sit under their related category heading. The topics have been created in order of how they came to me to be uploaded and I need them to match the site hierarchy drop-down which they do not. In other words when you are on a category landing page showing all of the related posts/topics they do not match how they sit within the hierarchy drop down menu.

    Is there a way of changing the post order so that they fit the hierarchy or will I need to copy/paste the posts in chronological order to match the hierarchy?

    Thanks in advance for any help.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    Blogs are essentially a reverse chronological order publishing tool wherein the most recent published post will display on top. You cannot change this order on a free hosted WordPress.com blog. There is no upgrade that allows you to change this post order on a free hosted WordPress.com blog. It’s designed to serve your visitors as they come to read the most recent posts and will not be inclined to trawl through hundreds of posts to locate it.

    See here for the option of creating a book-like structure > http://en.support.wordpress.com/write-a-book/ Perhaps that will work for you.

    Or you could use a single sticky post as an index page > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

    Or you can falsify every date-stamp before publishing.

    Staff have provided this support doc: Show your Posts in Chronological Order http://en.support.wordpress.com/show-your-posts-in-chronological-order/

    The default timezone is UTC time. You can reset your timezone here > Settings > General Select the closest city to you in the same timezone in the drop-down menu you see there and then click “save changes”.

    Edit the post, change the datestamp in the Publish module, and click Update.

    All Posts are found here > Dashboard > Posts > All Posts

    http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php
    *replace “/NAME_OF_BLOG” with the actual name of your blog

    You hover over the title of the post and click the Edit link, then edit the datestamp in the Publish module and click update.

    Note that you can examine these images so you see how to edit posts and change datestamps and timestamps where required.
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/

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    blackwidowwebsites · Member ·

    Thanks so much for your comprehensive response timethief.

    It has indeed solved my problem.

    keep up the great work!

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