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1. glaxton
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I need to have the administrative interface display the posts in reverse chronological order, oldest to newest.

   The website which visitors see, DOES NOT need to display this way.

   I searched inside the wp-admin directory for the command which lists the posts for an &orderby= query option, but came up with nothing.

   Thank You in advance for any assistance.

2. glaxton
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I actually figured this out shortly after posting...

   Go to: wp-admin/includes/post.php

   Scroll down to line number 513

   You are looking for a block like this:

   if ( 'pending' === $q['post_status'] ) {
        $order = 'ASC';
        $orderby = 'modified';
   } elseif ( 'draft' === $q['post_status'] ) {
        $order = 'DESC';
        $orderby = 'modified';
   } else {
        $order = 'DESC';
        $orderby = 'date';
   }

   In the final else {} Change:

   $order = 'ASC';

   to:

   $order = 'DESC';

   That's it! When you are done the block should look like this:

   if ( 'pending' === $q['post_status'] ) {
        $order = 'ASC';
        $orderby = 'modified';
   } elseif ( 'draft' === $q['post_status'] ) {
        $order = 'DESC';
        $orderby = 'modified';
   } else {
        $order = 'DESC'; /* used to be ASC */
        $orderby = 'date';
   }

3. tomontoast
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Ok you need to open up wp-admin/includes/post.php
   On line 771 there is a function called function wp_edit_posts_query()
   On line 794 there is
   

   if ( isset($q['post_status']) && 'pending' === $q['post_status'] ) {
             $order = 'ASC';
             $orderby = 'modified';
         } elseif ( isset($q['post_status']) && 'draft' === $q['post_status'] ) {
             $order = 'DESC';
             $orderby = 'modified';
         } else {
             $order = 'DESC';
             $orderby = 'date';
         }

   replace the DESC's with ASC's to look like
   

   if ( isset($q['post_status']) && 'pending' === $q['post_status'] ) {
             $order = 'ASC';
             $orderby = 'modified';
         } elseif ( isset($q['post_status']) && 'draft' === $q['post_status'] ) {
             $order = 'ASC'; //used to be DESC
             $orderby = 'modified';
         } else {
             $order = 'ASC'; //used to be DESC
             $orderby = 'date';
         }

   You can also on line 805 edit the number of posts displayed per page
   wp("post_type=post&what_to_show=posts$post_status_q&posts_per_page=15&order=$order&orderby=$orderby");

   I hope that helps!

4. tomontoast
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Oops I posted this without checking to see if anyone else had posted. Anyway we arrived at the same solution which is reassuring!

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