I want to copy a series of posts from a vacation blog into one page covering the whole trip
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My WordPress site has a blog where I post on a daily basis when I’m on vacation. I also have some pages where I do trip reports on things like rafting trips where I am off the grid and can’t post anything till the whole trip is over so at that time it seems better to do the whole trip report as a single page. But after a normal trip is over where I have created daily posts, I would also like to be able to create a single page of the posts that I created during that trip and have them be in chronological order so that someone after the fact could read the whole thing from top to bottom rather than have to go way back in time, read a post, then move upwards in the pages and forward in time to read the next post and so on. In other words, I want the best of both worlds: to be able to post on a daily basis and readers who are following the blog on a daily basis can read it that way but also have the ability to reorder it so that someone can read it from top to bottom in chronological order. Is there a way to do this? So far my ‘solution’ is to have a series of links to the pages and the links are in chronological order which is better than nothing but still short of what I want. This is how I did that: [archives order = asc]. Thanks for any help.
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Hi,
I would also like to be able to create a single page of the posts that I created during that trip and have them be in chronological order…
Your category pages, such as Bosnia, Croatia, etc. already display posts in reverse chronological order by category. To display posts in chronological order by category a nice option is to use customized Display Posts Shortcode in a page, text widget, etc. For example:
[display-posts category="bosnia" posts_per_page="-1" order="ASC"]
This shortcode, inserted in a page, post, or text widget, will display all (to a maximum of 100) posts in the “bosnia” category, in chronological order.
Links to your all of your category pages, both the standard and the shortcode versions, may be included in a custom menu if you like.
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Thank you so much for your help. I looked at your comments. First of all, I had never looked at the Categories and indeed if I look at Croatia, it does have all the posts but they are in reverse chronological order just like in my posts page whereas I want them in chronological order, oldest on top and newest on the bottom.
Next I tried the shortcode and it’s on my site now. It seems be similar to the Chronological Index of Blogs with the added benefit that it only includes the posts with the Category Croatia. Progress. But what I get is links to the posts whereas what I want is the posts themselves, one after another like you see them in the Categories. Is that possible? Thanks again for your help.
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First of all, I had never looked at the Categories and indeed if I look at Croatia, it does have all the posts but they are in reverse chronological order just like in my posts page whereas I want them in chronological order
That’s correct. I just wanted to point them out to you, in case you might have been unaware of them. In my previous post I noted that they were in reverse chronological order.
Your category pages, such as Bosnia, Croatia, etc. already display posts in reverse chronological order by category.
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But what I get is links to the posts whereas what I want is the posts themselves, one after another like you see them in the Categories. Is that possible?
No. Not the complete posts. You can display excerpts after the titles, thumbnail images, and various other aspects by using the available arguments listed (with examples) in the Display Posts Shortcode support page. Example, adapted from the support page:
[display-posts include_excerpt="true" image_size="thumbnail"]
This will display a list of posts including titles, excerpts, and thumbnail versions of featured images (if any are assigned) aligned to the right.Combining elements of the above code with the one I previously posted might give you something like this:
[display-posts category="bosnia" posts_per_page="-1" order="ASC" include_excerpt="true" image_size="thumbnail"] -
Now that you mention it, it seems rather odd that there doesn’t seem to be a argument to add to the shortcode that tells it to display entire posts.
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Thanks again for all your help. I really do appreciate it. I might incorporate your idea into my blog so that there will be links just to a single trip rather than having to tell people to start at Off to Europe and end at The Last Day. I really would rather be able to display the entire post but it doesn’t appear that WordPress has made that an option.
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After more Googling, I came up with a “solution”. In quotes because it’s still not quite what I want but it’s the best solution I have been able to come up with.
The key is to have a URL for a WordPress page and then to append this to the end of the URL: ?orderby=date&order=ASC
For instance in my case, this would be the full URL and clicking on a link to the URL will give me what I want.
https://brucerpeterson.wordpress.com/category/europe-2015/?orderby=date&order=ASC
I created a new page called Europe 2015 under the Previous Travel Diaries menu and then in that page I have the above link. It gets me what I want but there’s one more level of indirection than say for China 2011 where I wrote up the trip in a journal format, not a blog format. That is, I have to click on a link rather than having the text directly on the page. But it’s better than say Mexico 2013 which I created manually and where you have to follow individual links for each post.
I tried to change the URL for the Europe 2015 page to include the ?orderby=date&order=ASC but WordPress deleted the ? and the & so it didn’t work.
Overall, I guess this is an acceptable option in that it should be intuitive that you would need to click on the highlighted link to get what you want so I’m relatively happy.
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