Title: Assigning Variable for Order in Sequence
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Assigning Variable for Order in Sequence

 *  [atrag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atrag/)
 * (@atrag)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assigning-variable-for-order-in-sequence/)
 * This should be very simple but its turning out not to be. I want each post to
   display the number in the sequence it is being shown in the query. So this seemed
   very simple to me. Within the loop I put:
 *  `$ordertodisplay++;
    echo $ordertodisplay;`
 * However each post just shows 1. Can you explain what I am doing wrong?

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 *  [Allison Tarr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allisonplus/)
 * (@allisonplus)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assigning-variable-for-order-in-sequence/#post-7378600)
 * What does your query currently look like? Are you using WP_Query? If so, there
   are different order parameters you can feed it ([https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters](https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters)).
   Hope that at least points you in the right direction!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Allison Tarr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allisonplus/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assigning-variable-for-order-in-sequence/#post-7378600)
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