How to make older post show first?

die4me
(@die4me)

14 years, 3 months ago

I want to know how to make it show older post first.

For example i make a category and i make a post which gives instructions on how to do stuff like step 1
then i post step 2 and step 3 and so on.
What i want is it to show the post step 1 first so as i add more
step post at a later date people don’t have to back track to the first
post and can just go step 1 and so on.

Having it show the last step makes it look bad and having to change the dates doesn’t let me show the newest step in recent post

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esmi
(@esmi)

14 years, 3 months ago
You’d need to create a custom query along the lines of
```
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args= array(
	'orderby' => 'date',
	'order' => 'ASC',
	'paged' => $paged
);
query_posts($args);
?>
```
and place it above the Loop in the relevant theme template files.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts
vtxyzzy
(@vtxyzzy)

14 years, 3 months ago

Another alternative would be to use two loops as shown in this tutorial.

Dene
(@dene)

14 years, 3 months ago

Yet another option…..

If you only have a few posts to reorder and you don’t want to change the template files, you might consider the post mash plugin:

post mash link

Once you install and activate the plugin, you’ll have a new option under posts called ‘postMash’. You can drag and drop the posts to appear in the desired order.

Good luck.

sebastianotero
(@sebastianotero)

13 years, 11 months ago

I have the post mask plug installed but nothing happens after I reorder the posts….help!

saildude
(@saildude)

13 years, 11 months ago

Yet another option:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/default-sort-ascend/

Shane G.
(@shane-g-1)

13 years, 11 months ago

Hi,

You can set your desired post order with the help of this plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-order/

Thanks,

Shane G.

sebastianotero
(@sebastianotero)

13 years, 11 months ago

Thanks. Custom Post order, nothing happens when I use it. It doesnt execute what its supposed to do.

This has become amazingly difficutlt!