I want posts on my serial novel to appear in reverse chronological order. I added a shortcode [displ
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I’ve been reading your pages on ordering posts in reverse chronological order. I tried altering the URL, but it seems to take out the necessary slashes, question mark and equals sign.
Then I tried adding the shortcode [display-posts order="DESC"]. I just have it as the only item on the relevant page. But it doesn’t work.
I don’t think it’s a question of caching. I used the forced refresh you mention and also closed the tab completely and went back in. I’m using Chrome.
This is for a serialised novel, so it’s important. The domain-name URL is nettertonhall.com.
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Hi there,
I see that you have your posts page set up (in your site’s reading settings) so your blog posts appear on the Chapters page here: http://nettertonhall.com/chapters/
However, that posts page will always display your posts with the latest posts first (reverse chronological order). If you’d like to show your posts in the opposite order (oldest posts first), you can use a URL like this: http://nettertonhall.com/chapters/?order=asc
To add that link to your site (so visitors go to that URL instead of the default) you can add that as a custom link in a Custom Menu on your site. Please let me know if you have any questions about how to set that up!
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Thank you.
1. How do I set up that URL? I already tried, following help pages, to change the end of the URL on the Chapters page, but I must be going about it the wrong way.
2. I may need some help with the Custom Menu. -
There isn’t a way to change a page’s actual URL, but you can change the link in your site’s menu so it goes to the custom URL (with the right ending) by setting up a custom menu.
You can get started with that custom menu under Appearance > Menus in your site’s classic dashboard. It might help to take a look at the setup video on this support page, to get started: http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
To link to your Chapters page with the special URL http://nettertonhall.com/chapters/?order=asc you can add it as a custom link to your menu. Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)
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Sorry, I’m completely new to the site and am quite at sea. I think I created a menu with the link in that you suggest, but I don’t see it anywhere on the site. And will it mean that readers have to pull down a menu to see the chapters of the book? They may not think of doing that. I thought that serialising fiction is something that you could use WordPress for?
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Would it be easier for me to set up the chapters as pages? I don’t want them all to appear along the top of the blog, though.
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Hi there,
Sorry, let me take a step back and explain how that menu works. :)
Right now, your site is displaying a default menu — that default menu links to your four pages: “Home,” “About,” “Chapters,” and “The Trilogy.” Since that’s the default menu, it will always show those links just as they are. There isn’t a way to change the link to the “Chapters” page (so it shows your posts in the order you want) without creating a custom menu, instead.
You can use that custom menu to completely replace the default menu that appears on your site. That way, you can customize the link to the “Chapters” page so it goes to the link you want: http://nettertonhall.com/chapters/?order=asc
When you set up that custom menu (under Appearance > Menus) you can recreate the menu that you want to have on your site. So you can select your pages from the left-hand side and add each of them to the menu. (That way your menu will still have links to “Home,” “About,” and “The Trilogy.”)
Instead of adding the page “Chapters” to the menu, though, you can keep the custom link you set up there. That way it will use your custom link instead of the default link to that page. It won’t create a dropdown menu — it will just take readers to the page with the oldest posts appearing first, instead of the default page where the newest posts appear first.
Once you have the whole menu set up the way you want it, you can look under “Menu Settings” on that screen and check the box next to “Primary Menu.” That will replace the default menu on your site with that custom menu you created.
Please let me know if you have any other questions!
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