Posting Suggestion Needed

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  kellysalasin · Member · Feb 1, 2010 at 5:49 pm

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  I would like to create a specific collection of posts within this blog. I want readers to be able to access this collection specifically–and be able to read through the posts in chronological order–as it will be in journal format. I will not however be entering the content chronologically. How would I best meet these needs?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2010 at 5:56 pm

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  I believe that could be done by creating a Category for the collection and assigning that category to the collection of posts. When you place a Categories widget in the sidebar of your blog all the posts in the collection will be displayed in date order with the most recent being first displayed.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2010 at 5:58 pm

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  Here are the support documentation links:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/category-management/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/

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  kellysalasin · Member · Feb 1, 2010 at 6:52 pm

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  Thank you. I am familiar with the category widget, but here’s my added confusion. If I don’t enter the posts in the order I want them read, how can I re-order them (after posting) so that the reader can access them in the order I want?

  I’m challenged to explain this, but I’ll be entering posts as I find material and sometimes a post will be out of order.

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  kellysalasin · Member · Feb 1, 2010 at 6:53 pm

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  oops, don’t answer that above question until i read the links you so aptly shared

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  kellysalasin · Member · Feb 1, 2010 at 6:55 pm

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  ok, didn’t appear to be anything relevant to my question there so please answer:

  Thank you. I am familiar with the category widget, but here’s my added confusion. If I don’t enter the posts in the order I want them read, how can I re-order them (after posting) so that the reader can access them in the order I want?

  I’m challenged to explain this, but I’ll be entering posts as I find material and sometimes a post will be out of order.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2010 at 6:59 pm

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  (1) You can change date/time stamps by editing.
  (2) You can create a listing of the linked titles of the posts in the order that you want readers to read them in and place the list either on a Page or in a text widget.

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  kellysalasin · Member · Feb 1, 2010 at 7:13 pm

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  thank you once again time thief!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2010 at 7:36 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)