Can I Make WordPress App arrange my drafts by their original creation time?

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  oakgrows · Member · Oct 15, 2017 at 5:09 pm

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  I write once or more a day, a personal blog, and I find it infuriating that all my drafts rearrange by whichever one I edited last. I want them to stay in the order that I created each post file so my posts stop getting all mixed up.

  For now I’ve started writing 001, etc at the top of all my posts so I can keep a hold of my chronological order.

  Also: I just realized some are Draft but others are stuck at the top as Local Draft. This adds to the original issue.

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2017 at 8:32 pm

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  All support docs are here https://en.support.wordpress.com/

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/show-your-posts-in-chronological-order/

  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.
  Creating a page and using the display posts shortcode https://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/ on it will apply only to 100 posts
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  Additional information:

  The default timezone is UTC time. You can reset your timezone here > Dashboard > Settings > General.

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-general.php

  *Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your blog.

  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/
  Note also that if you create sticky posts they will always be on top https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/#sticky-posts unless or until you edit and remove the sticky designation.

  If you still have an issue then please type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a Staff follow-up. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Also subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  oakgrows · Member · Oct 15, 2017 at 8:50 pm

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  @timethief

  I appreciate the well written response, but it wasn’t the answer to the question I had. Perhaps I didn’t write it out well. I want my DRAFTS to stop rearranging themselves by whichever one I edited last. It makes it difficult to figure out which post I wrote first. And that makes it hard for me to post them in reverse chronological order.

  Furthermore the drafts and posts are all mixed together in the app, but separate on the website. Is there a way to separate the posts and the drafts in the app?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2017 at 8:53 pm

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  I want my DRAFTS to stop rearranging themselves by whichever one I edited last.

  That is NOT expected behavior unless you are changing the datestamps when editing.

  Which app are you referring to?

  Please type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a Staff follow-up. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Also subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Oct 15, 2017 at 9:26 pm

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  Hi –

  Following up on the modlook tag.

  Please let me know which version of the app you are using and which device you have.