Can you change the order posts appear in?

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  headzookeeper25 · Member · Oct 4, 2016 at 6:28 pm

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  Hey there –
  I just created a class blog for my high school class and I added all of the homework/classwork posts in indiscriminate order thinking that I could easily change the order in which they’re listed at a later time. Now I can’t figure out how to do this. Is there a way to change the order my blog posts appear in on my site? It would be easier for my students to find the work they’re looking for if I can get the posts arranged by chronological order rather than the random order I entered them in. Silly me… :/
  Thanks in advance for any help!
  Amy

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  timethief · Member · Oct 4, 2016 at 6:31 pm

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  There is no universal setting you can use to change post 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.

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

  Editing datestamps on published posts breaks URLs as dates are embedded into urls automatically.

  Go to https://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php

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

  Hover over the post title and click the Edit link.
  For editing in the new editor see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/