Sorting of posts

• 

  steveg144 · Member · Feb 20, 2017 at 6:31 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  I’m curious why the most recent post is showing at the bottom of the page, instead of at the top. I would have thought the most recent post would have shown up there.

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

• 

  lucasjoyce · Member · Feb 20, 2017 at 8:37 pm

  • Copy link

  Hey steveg144,

  The
  Have a look at your publish dates and times, I can see both posts were published on the same date (February 20th) but it may be a time issue.

  Have a look and let me know what the times say.

  LJ

• 

  steveg144 · Member · Feb 20, 2017 at 9:36 pm

  • Copy link

  How do you check the actual minute? I see that a post says it was published 5 hours ago, but I don’t see the exact time.

• 

  lucasjoyce · Member · Feb 21, 2017 at 4:09 pm

  • Copy link

  hey,

  You can’t see it by minute, does both say the same hour?

  LJ

• 

  lucasjoyce · Member · Feb 27, 2017 at 4:24 pm

  • Copy link

  Hey Steve,

  you may not need this anymore but i’ve just though you mind find it this useful (incase you encounter any more issues with blog posts and dates). You can change the date on your old posts and new posts.

  1. Click on My sites
  2. Select Blog Posts.
  3. Click Edit on the post you wish to change.
  3. You will see a small cog symbol with the words Published (and a date) Click on it.
  4.You’ll see the date there and can edit it to which ever date you see fit.

  Hope you find this useful
  Cheers LJ

• 

  timethief · Member · Mar 1, 2017 at 6:29 pm

  • Copy link

  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.

  See here for the option of creating a book-like structure > http://en.support.wordpress.com/write-a-book/ Perhaps that will work for you.

  Or you could use a single sticky post as an index page > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

  Or you can falsify every date-stamp before publishing.

  Staff have provided this support doc: Show your Posts in Chronological Order http://en.support.wordpress.com/show-your-posts-in-chronological-order/

  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”.

  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/