Order posts in reverse order

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  philroberts22 · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 10:15 pm

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  Hi. I’d like to order my posts with the oldest first. They are held in a page and I’ve tried adding the shortcodes from the WordPress help but none seem to affect the order. I added the shortcode into a new page and then set that to hold the posts.
  What am I doing wrong?
  Thanks
  Phil

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  timethief · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 10:27 pm

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

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  philroberts22 · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 10:59 pm

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  Thanks for the prompt reply. I quite understand, it’s just that the WordPress.com help rather indicated I could change the order, no mention of the Premium requirement.
  The blog is ‘historic’ now and won’t be added to so I just wanted it available in the order it was added to. I suspect now I’ll just move it to one of my own websites, but thanks for the help.
  Phil

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  timethief · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 11:02 pm

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  I’m sorry I forgot to post that there is no upgrade that allows you to change this post order on a free hosted WordPress.com blog.