I should have noted that I am using the 2014 theme.
lisa
(@contentiskey)
if you are comfortable making theme template changes, it is possible to change the order of display of posts. what is your comfort level with making changes? do you have a child theme set up so you don’t make changes directly to the original 2014 theme files?
Yes, I will make a child theme and make any needed changes if you can point me to the correct .php file and what should be changed. Also, I just switched to the 2012 theme for now as I bought a book that covers that theme. Thanks for your help.
lisa
(@contentiskey)
after creating a child theme so you won’t be changing original theme files:
for twentytwelve theme look in this template to find “the loop”:
Main Index Template (index.php)
it is labeled: Start the Loop
read the full details from the codex for what areas to edit to change order of posts:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters
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if something goes wrong with the changes you are trying to make , you can always remove the problem file from child theme via FTP client and start over with the change.
Ok, I have created the child theme and located the Loop in the original index.php. I guess I just add the $query statement below some where in the loop of my child theme. Can I put it as the first statement right after /* Start the Loop */?>
$query = new WP_Query( array ( 'order' => 'DESC' ) );
<?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php twentytwelve_content_nav( 'nav-below' ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<article id="post-0" class="post no-results not-found">
I added the following line before the loop in index.php. Works good. I’m surprised WordPress does not have some simple way in the GUI to toggle between ASC and DESC.
<?php get_header(); query_posts($query_string . “&order=ASC”); ?>
