Best way to display older posts

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  ariannasrandomthoughts · Member · Jan 10, 2012 at 6:45 am

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  Hi,

  I just realized I have written 120 posts. I was wondering how can I get readers to look at the older posts? Is there a way or tips that you could suggest? I find when new people find my blog, they look at the last ten or the most popular.

  Any suggestions to feature the other posts or make them stand out too would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. You all are so helpful.

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 10, 2012 at 8:55 am

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  You could feature an older post as a “sticky post” and then switch them out, say, weekly.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jan 10, 2012 at 9:15 am

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  Adding the Categories widget might also help.

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  limberation · Member · Jan 10, 2012 at 9:30 am

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  Link to them when appropriate in your newer posts.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 10, 2012 at 5:11 pm

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  It’s easy to post a link in a text widget in your blog’s sidebar that when clicked will display a random post found in your blog. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/02/13/wordpress-create-a-random-post-icon/

  You could also create a static page for Popular Posts or Selected Posts. Mine gets a lot of traffic. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/popular-posts/

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 10, 2012 at 5:40 pm

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  And a very fast way to display those popular posts in your sidebar is by using an RSS widget and the feed from a special Category that you create, such as “Popular”.

  Here’s info on how to locate the feed for a category
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/

  and here’s info on how to get that category feed into the RSS widget
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/

  Great question!

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jan 10, 2012 at 5:50 pm

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  “Great question!”
  And a different suggestion in each reply – I like this thread!
  Happy new year everybody!

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  ariannasrandomthoughts · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 4:42 am

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  Thanks so much everyone! I will give them all a try :)

  I agree hope everyone is having a great start to their new year.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 7:18 am

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  I have over 4000 posts and can tell you that no matter what you do, new stuff will ALWAYS outrank old stuff. Hardly anyone reads my old stuff, even though it’s prominently featured on my site.

  Focus on writing great new stuff.

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  techallica · Member · Jan 13, 2012 at 1:29 pm

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  Consider using the Older Posts Widget

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 13, 2012 at 2:08 pm

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  @techallica – that is a WordPress.ORG Widget and is not available for WordPress.COM blogs.

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  limberation · Member · Jan 13, 2012 at 2:19 pm

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  @Raincoaster depends on the type of site. my pillar posts get read everyday.