Trying to present my 'categories' in chronological order from oldest first

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  theplowbygeorge · Member · Apr 1, 2017 at 5:57 pm

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  Followed the following guide which seems to be lacking information:

  Add a String to Your URLs

  Find the URL of the posts you wish to display chronologically. You can choose your whole blog feed, a specific category, or even a tag.
  Your URL should look something like this:
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/
  Choose a start date! You can pick which date you want to be the starting point for your posts.
  Let’s say we pick January 1, 2014.
  Add that date to your URL:
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/
  That should give us all the posts from January, starting with the newest.
  Reverse the order by adding ?order=asc to the end of the URL:http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/?order=asc
  Now you should see all the posts from January, starting with the oldest!
  Optional: create a custom menu with a link to the URL you created

  I did this for one of my ‘categories’ and received a ‘not found’ message as if I was doing a search rather than changing the URL string for the category posts. What in the guide instructions is missing so I can change the URL rather than searching in the browser?

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  houstonweaver · Member · Apr 2, 2017 at 12:20 am

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  From my tinkering it looks as though you can choose a start date OR a category.

  If you can live with displaying all your posts from your category you can use the category alone and it will pick it up from your first post in the category – example:

  https://theplowbygeorge.wordpress.com/category/mystic-moments/?order=asc

  The formatting of the original support article doesn’t explicitely combine the 2 searches of category and date: https://en.support.wordpress.com/show-your-posts-in-chronological-order/

  Will be interested in seeing if others will provide an example limiting by date AND category.

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  theplowbygeorge · Member · Apr 2, 2017 at 8:37 pm

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  We are getting closer and thank you for showing that the date as suggested in the support article is not needed. Certainly the URL you posted allows the ordering I desire when I change the URL; but the URL reverts back to the original if I go to another Category and go back to the Category with the URL I changed. I do not know how to make the URL stay with the ?order=asc ending.

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  houstonweaver · Member · Apr 3, 2017 at 2:08 am

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  If you want one or all of your categories always presented that way you could just use that link either for your menu link to the category.

  Or use a text widget and link your categories using that code.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

  Maybe something like a text widget called Category Posts in Chronological Order and then for each category use the link like the sample above. For example:
  <a href="https://theplowbygeorge.wordpress.com/category/mystic-moments/?order=asc">Mystic Moments</a>
  And list all of your categories in that way.