Reverse chronological order for pages

  • Unknown's avatar
    annmariehak · Member ·

    The following pages:

    https://sacredbraincandy.wordpress.com/blog-2/travel-in-search-of-home/canada/

    and

    https://sacredbraincandy.wordpress.com/psychicpoetry/” automatically

    allow the pages within it to appear in reverse chronological order. However in these page links:

    https://sacredbraincandy.wordpress.com/blog-2/journal/

    and

    https://sacredbraincandy.wordpress.com/blog-2/writing-workshops/

    the pages within them appear in standard chronological order.

    Is there a way to reconfigure the last two pages so that the pages within them show up in reverse chronological order?

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

  • dcoleonline · Staff ·

    Hi Ann,

    Is there a way to reconfigure the last two pages so that the pages within them show up in reverse chronological order?

    You can set the order of the pages by using the Order field in the editor:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-options/#order

    The order defaults to 0 for all pages, but feel free to set the order however you like. Pages with a low number will appear first, while pages with a high number will appear last.

    That said, if you are wanting to use this portion of a site as a blog, it might be better to use Blog Posts instead of Pages. Visitors can subscribe to get automatic updates when you publish blog posts, but they won’t be notified for pages.

    If you use blog posts, you can use Categories to group your posts. You can even add links to categories in your site’s menu so that visitors can click on the name of a category and see all posts within that category.

    We also have a Display Posts shortcode that allows you to show a list of posts on any regular page, and you can even customize how that list of posts appears on your site.

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    musicdoc1 · Member ·

    @dcoleonline,

    Though the links @annmariehak provided are now broken, I believe she was asking about the order of child pages displayed in a page with the grid page template assigned. I had intended to respond to this topic a couple of days ago, but two things stopped me from doing so:

    1. I’d expected child pages to display in reverse chronological order by default, but I found that this isn’t the case, at least not on the Dara theme. Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me. Don’t child pages in a grid page template display in reverse chronological order by default on most themes?

    2. I found that not only do child pages not display in reverse chronological order, they don’t display in chronological order either, if I change the publish dates after publishing them, and they certainly do not display in alphabetical or alphanumerical order either.

    I finally figured out that child pages in a grid page on Dara display, by default, in numerical order by Page ID. However, I didn’t find this information in any WordPress.com support document, and I imagine others have wondered what element determines the order in which child pages are displayed in a grid page on Dara. I don’t know if other themes behave similarly.

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    annmariehak · Member ·

    Yes thank you so much @dcoleonline and @musicdoc1 I was able to reformat my website in a way that I like.

    But I was wondering if either of you know how/if it is possible to apply the grid sequence for my blog posts, especially when clicking one of the category menus?

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    musicdoc1 · Member ·

    @annmariehak,

    But I was wondering if either of you know how/if it is possible to apply the grid sequence for my blog posts…

    Page templates such as the grid page template are only available for static pages. However, there is a similar feature available for posts on some themes. Themes with a grid-based or tiled format on the posts page, where each image in the grid or in the tile rows link to a corresponding individual post, include the following:

    Limited posts in grid-based or tiled format

    • Canard (up to five featured content posts displayed in mosaic tiles)

    …especially when clicking one of the category menus?

    Some of the themes listed above will automatically display posts in the same grid-based or tiled format on archives pages, including category pages, as they do on the blog page.

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