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  booksbythebeach19 · Member · Mar 3, 2017 at 2:00 pm

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  Hello. I have three blog posts so far and somehow my latest post ended up being posted between my first and second posts. How do I set it so that newest posts show first?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Mar 3, 2017 at 5:27 pm

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  Hi –

  It sounds like the date of the post may have been edited when you were working on them.

  You can edit the publish dates to get them lined up the way you want right now. Going forward, use these instructions for reference about post order: https://en.support.wordpress.com/show-your-posts-in-chronological-order/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 3, 2017 at 5:34 pm

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  Hi there,

  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.

  Additional information:
  The default timezone is UTC time. You can reset your timezone here > Dashboard > Settings > General. Select the closest city to you in the same timezone in the drop-down menu you see there and then click “save changes”.
  The default timezone is UTC time. You can reset your timezone here > Settings > General

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

  *Replace the NAME_OF_BLOG with the actual name of your site.

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

  Then 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. If you have created sticky posts read this support doc and edit them https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#go-back-and-edit-posts to remove that designation https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

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  timethief · Member · Mar 3, 2017 at 5:36 pm

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  staff-zinnia
  Please excuse my post above. I was not convinced that the rest timezone or sticky post issue were dealt with. If neither are in play then I apologize.

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Mar 3, 2017 at 7:30 pm

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  timethief that is great information. Thanks for sharing. No worries at all :)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 3, 2017 at 7:34 pm

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  staff-zinnia
  I’m ghosting your threads so I can provide better answers. It always makes me sweat when I post into any thread to add to what Staff have said. Thanks for being so gracious. :)

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  booksbythebeach19 · Member · Mar 4, 2017 at 3:35 pm

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  I just wanted to thank you both for taking the time to respond to my question. Turns out I had marked the one blog post “sticky” and that was causing it to show first. Once I unchecked that, all the posts went back to reverse chronological order like I want. Again, thank you and I hope you guys have a great weekend!