Posting chronologically
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Could anyone PLEASE tell me how to get my posts to appear in CHRONOLOGICAL order – ie. my first post first, second one second and so on. I DID read the ‘support page’ content, but I don’t understand it :-(
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Hi there! Let me try to help. :)
By default, WordPress displays posts in reverse chronological order, with the newest first.
While there isn’t an easy way to flip that around to display the oldest posts first, there are a couple of workarounds.
The simplest one is probably to manually change the date of your posts. For example, let’s say you have 3 posts now. You could change the date of those posts so the oldest one has the newest date:
Post 1 – give it a date of November 15
Post 2 – give it a date of November 14
Post 3 – give it a date of November 13One disadvantage of this method is that you need to remember to manually back-date every single post, when you make it. It can also be confusing for readers to see dates that don’t match up with the date you publish the post.
Another workaround is to use the Display Posts shortcode instead of WordPress’s automatically generated (reverse chronological) blog page. If you went that route, you would need to create a static page and assign it as your site’s front page in your Customizer‘s Static Front page panel. On the new page you created, you would add a shortcode, like:
[ display-posts include_content="true" ]
(remove the spaces near each square bracket)One disadvantage of this method is that the formatting of the post may not be the same as it would be otherwise. Another disadvantage is that there is no pagination with the shortcode, so your blog page may be lengthy and take a while to load.
There are a couple of other methods listed here, but the two I just mentioned are the most common.
Just let me know if you have any questions above the above.
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