How do I move posts around within my blog.

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    districtivshufflers · Member ·

    Say I have 5 posts in my blog and they inserted by date but I want to move one to the top . How do I do this?

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    patilswapnilv · Member ·

    Hello,

    Posts with more recent timestamps come before those with older ones. The simplest (and most instinctive) way to re-order WordPress blog posts on the front-end is to change the post dates by hand.

    Start off by logging into your WordPress site’s admin panel and navigating to Posts > All Posts. Open the post you want at the top of your series in the Edit Post screen and note down the date and time of when it was published.

    Now, head back to Posts > All Posts and select the post you want to have appear next in line. Click on the Edit link in the “Published on” section and change the post’s timestamp so that it pre-dates the post that’s intended to be ahead of it in the series’ queue.

    Repeat the same process for all of the posts in your series.

    Changing the post dates manually is incredibly easy to implement if you have a handful of posts that need to be re-ordered. This option isn’t as effective when you have hundreds of posts to re-order or when the timestamp is an important element of the post.

    I would also recommend using the wp-admin interface to find these options faster. You can switch to the wp-admin interface using the button ‘WP-Admin’ on the bottom left on your dashboard.

    I hope you find this helpful, please feel free to reply here in case you have any further queries,

    Regards,

  • yamphoenix · Staff ·

    Hope you don’t mind me adding a bit of information here-

    You can mark some posts as Sticky to make them appear above the other posts. They will stay at the top of your posts until you uncheck that option on the Edit screen for that post.
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

    Generally, the Sticky option is only used for one or two posts on a blog. It should not be used for every post.

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