Changing blog order

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  chrisjshaw1965 · Member · May 6, 2017 at 10:18 pm

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  Is there a simple way to change the order of my posts within to display oldest to newest under a category instead of newest to oldest?

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  houstonweaver · Member · May 7, 2017 at 2:01 am

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  Yes, there are several ways to show your posts in chronological order:

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

  The easiest is to simply add ?order=asc to the menu link for your category pages so it will read like this for example:
  https://roadslesstravelled972.wordpress.com/category/travel/china/?order=asc

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  chrisjshaw1965 · Member · May 7, 2017 at 4:07 am

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  Oh – that’s great! I’ll give it a try.

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  chrisjshaw1965 · Member · May 7, 2017 at 4:14 am

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  Hmmm – I’m a complete newbie to this stuff – how exactly do I add that info to the menu link / URL?

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  houstonweaver · Member · May 7, 2017 at 1:22 pm

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  Go to the Customize item in the dashboard.
  Choose Menu
  Add new item
  Choose the item type of Custom Link
  -Put in the URL for your ascending order category
  https://roadslesstravelled972.wordpress.com/category/travel/china/?order=asc
  – Add the Link text for your menu item – China
  Save to menu.

  Once saved, you can remove your old China category menu item.
  And you can reorder your menu items to place your new custom link menu item in the proper location.

  Review this support document before you begin.:

  Menus

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  chrisjshaw1965 · Member · May 7, 2017 at 10:26 pm

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  I’m off to work in a few minutes but I’ll give that a try when I have a few minutes to spare – thanks again for your help. I’ll be sure to post and let you know if it works.