Title: Chronological Posts with PHP & Not a Plugin Last modified: August 15, 2017 --- # Chronological Posts with PHP & Not a Plugin * Resolved [ElasticMind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elasticmind/) * (@elasticmind) * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chronological-posts-with-php-not-a-plugin/) * Hello, * I’m curious, does anyone know how I can make my blog posts appear in chronological order without using a plugin but rather PHP? Currently, I’m using the plugin Chronological Posts to get the effect I need but I’m finding that it freezes/ disables the updating of my RSS feed as a result. * The site I’m creating this effect on my site. As you can see from the feed / feed, all new posts have not appeared there and I have determined it’s due to the plugin. * Any help you can provide is much appreciated, * Tara * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fchronological-posts-with-php-not-a-plugin%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chronological-posts-with-php-not-a-plugin/#post-9412393) * Posts should appear in descending chronological order. No plugin should be needed for that. * Thread Starter [ElasticMind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elasticmind/) * (@elasticmind) * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chronological-posts-with-php-not-a-plugin/#post-9412406) * Sorry Steve, I should have been more clear. I need them to be ascending order. * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chronological-posts-with-php-not-a-plugin/#post-9412456) * Use a callback function for pre_get_posts to change the sort order from DESC to ASC. That will change them from newest first to oldest first. * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts) * Thread Starter [ElasticMind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elasticmind/) * (@elasticmind) * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chronological-posts-with-php-not-a-plugin/#post-9415852) * Thanks for getting back to me, Steve. I’m not exactly clear on what I need to do… would you be able to be more specific about the PHP code needed? * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chronological-posts-with-php-not-a-plugin/#post-9415864) * This is NOT tested code — you need to do SOMETHING LIKE this…. * ``` add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'reverse_post_order' ); function reverse_post_order( $query ) { if ( is_main_query() && is_archive() ) { // this is the conditional you have to work on $query->set( 'order', 'ASC'); } } ``` * see [https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags](https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags) - This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/). * Thread Starter [ElasticMind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elasticmind/) * (@elasticmind) * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chronological-posts-with-php-not-a-plugin/#post-9418907) * Thank you so much, Steve. I’m sorry to take up more of your time but I’ve tested this code and I’m still not getting the results I’m looking for… this code is placed in my child theme’s function.php file: * /*===================================================================*/ /* 4. CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER /*======================================================= ============*/ add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘reverse_post_order’ ); function reverse_post_order( $query ) { if ( is_main_query() && is_front_page() && is_home()){ $query->set( ‘order’, ‘ASC’); } } * I don’t need the archive to be in chronological order, so I removed that condition and added that I need the homepage/blog page in chronological order. Using that code, it’s still in descending order. Any idea why it’s not working? * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chronological-posts-with-php-not-a-plugin/#post-9418945) * Because that makes no sense. What order do you want the posts to be in? * How is your home page content set? - This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/). * Thread Starter [ElasticMind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elasticmind/) * (@elasticmind) * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chronological-posts-with-php-not-a-plugin/#post-9418976) * Thanks again for your help, Steve. I’m going to pause on this until tomorrow as the “Chronological Posts” plugin author has provided me with a solution to fix the RSS feed issue that I’m hoping will work and I won’t need to fiddle with this code. I’ll be in touch tomorrow and if all works I’ll mark this discussion as resolved. Thanks again for your support so far. * Thread Starter [ElasticMind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elasticmind/) * (@elasticmind) * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chronological-posts-with-php-not-a-plugin/#post-9422577) * The “Chronological Posts” plugin author has provided me with a solution to fix the RSS feed issue and so I’ve marked this discussion as resolved. Thanks again for your time and help, Steve. 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