Can I reverse the order of comments to a post?

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  cousinlynn953 · Member · Sep 16, 2014 at 5:39 pm

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  I have an Open Page, which invites free comments. But it’s getting long, and it might be better to reverse the comments, so the newest appear at top instead of at bottom.

  Can I do this? If so, how?

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 16, 2014 at 5:51 pm

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  Yes. You can do this > Dashboard > Settings > Discussion
  See 6. Comments should be displayed with the __ comments at the top of each page – This setting allows you to reverse the order of comments. You can display comments in ascending or descending order. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#other-comment-settings

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  timethief · Member · Sep 16, 2014 at 5:52 pm

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  Also note: 5. Break comments into pages with __ comments per page and the __ last page displayed by default – If your posts/pages get a lot of comments, you may want to split the comments into pages. You can choose how many top level comments (nested comments are not counted and will not be split between two pages) to show for each page. You can also choose which page to show by default when a visitor first views the comments. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#other-comment-settings

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  cousinlynn953 · Member · Sep 16, 2014 at 11:43 pm

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  Thanks, TT. Can I specify ascending or descending comment order for individual posts, or pages? I don’t want to change the order for the whole blog.

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  cousinlynn953 · Member · Oct 24, 2014 at 1:12 pm

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  TT didn’t answer my last question, but it looks like there is no option to reverse the order of comments for just one page.