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  pachitastartsagain · Member · May 14, 2017 at 2:05 am

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  Help please,
  I want to display my posts in the order from oldest to newest.
  I have looked at the support page but i am still confused as to how to do this.
  can anyone help? I need SUPER BASIC instructions. A bit dense here..
  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · May 14, 2017 at 2:07 am

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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. There is no upgrade that allows you to change this post 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.
  Creating a page and using the display posts shortcode https://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/ on it will apply only to 100 posts
  For chronological order see https://en.support.wordpress.com/show-your-posts-in-chronological-order/

  Additional information:

  The default timezone is UTC time. You can reset your timezone here > Dashboard > Settings > General.

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-general.php

  *Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your blog.

  Select the closest city to you in the same timezone in the drop-down menu you see there and then click “save changes”.

  Edit the post, change the datestamp in the Publish module, and click Update.

  All Posts are found here > Dashboard > Posts > All Posts

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php
  *replace “/NAME_OF_BLOG” with the actual name of your blog

  You hover over the title of the post and click the Edit link, then edit the datestamp in the Publish module and click update.

  Note that you can examine these images so you see how to edit posts and change datestamps and timestamps where required.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/

  Note also that if you create sticky posts they will always be on top https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/#sticky-posts unless or until you edit and remove the sticky designation.

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  pachitastartsagain · Member · May 14, 2017 at 2:29 am

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  Thank you, this helps.
  One more-
  Is there a way to display the most current post, but have older posts on a side menu (that you can click and choose from) rather than have a long chain of posts on display on the one screen?

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · May 23, 2017 at 4:46 pm

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  Howdy –

  I’ve removed the modlook tag.

  Is there a way to display the most current post

  Yes. By default your posts will show in reverse chronological order. You can change that though, here’s how: https://en.support.wordpress.com/show-your-posts-in-chronological-order/ Or you may want to keep a favorite post more visible by making it sticky.

  You can add the Recent Post Widget and limit the number of posts shown on the page under settings.