Reversing the order of posts?
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Hello,
I have a books review blog: http://philtang.wordpress.com/ . I currently have it set up so every series is a different category. I’m not sure if this is the best way to do it when the number of books gets too great, but its working for me right now. The problem is whenever someone clicks a new series / category it always shows the latest blog. Since these are series’, they are usually the last book in the series or the last book in the series I blogged about. This is not helpful for someone who doesn’t know the series or any of the previous books in the series and it is not intuitive to keep clicking the “previous entry” link until you get to the first post. What I am hoping to do is get the oldest or 1st post up when someone clicks on a category. Thanks for the help.
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Oh I should also mention I have it set to only 1 post per page so people will only see the newest book of the series until the click the link on the bottom.
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There is no easy way to reverse the order of posts. Basically what you would have to do is change the publish dates on the posts so that they would be in the order you want them to be in.
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I figured as much, but it kind of screws up my “most recent post” when people click on my blog. Oh well. Thanks anyways.
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Ah yes, it would do that.
You’re welcome and sorry there isn’t another solution for you.
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Hmmmm I also found another unintended consequence of not changing publishing dates – my links get messed up. If the first book was originally page 3, by adding a new book to the category it makes my intended link now page 4. Ok I guess I have to change publishing dates.
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One other suggestion is to create pages and list the books (with links) on the pages in the order that you want people to view them.
You could if you wished then create a static front page for the blog which would hide the out-of-order posts.
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I want people to be able to click on “older posts” to immediately link them to the previous book in the series which is why I made any links page specific. I guess this is a mess I made myself by reading other books in between series’ lol. Sorry if I am being picky, but I guess I’m a bit of a perfectionist. I really do appreciate all the help you are giving me.
I think what I may end up having to do is block off a chunk of time for each series. January for one series, February for another series, etc. Then if I want a particular book on the front page, I would move that entire chunk of time forward.
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You can set posts that you want to feature on the main page to sticky posts and they will show up on top of the front page.
http://support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/
In general, once you get the pages in order, it is not advisable to alter the dates. When you do as you discovered, it changes the URL, which means it will break links at the search engines, which is not a good thing.
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