How to allow visitor to read oldest posts first (original chronology)?

  • Hello,

    Is there a way to allow visitor to change the default reversed chronology when reading a chain of posts? I realize that reverse chronology is the blogging “standard” and works well if you follow something on a regular basis, but if you want to catch up with a year of posts one would like to start from the beginning and work one’s way towards the newer posts.

    My searches yielded plug-ins for reversing comments, but I didn’t find anything regarding posts. And it would need to runtime and optional, something like a button next to a chain “Read me from the beginning” :).

    Rgds,

    .brum

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  • Vaughan

    (@vaughan-van-dyk)

    Hi,

    That’s a good question as I’m sure a few of us have wanted to display posts in the ‘non-standard’ way. To do this, you need to use the query_posts template tag and set the order parameter to ascending (the default is a descending chronological order). You use this tag outside of The Loop, such as in this basic example:

    <?php query_posts("order=ASC"); ?>
	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    query_posts is a very powerful way of configuring how you want posts displayed and more variations of its use can be found here:
    query_posts Codex link

    Hope that helps.
    Vaughan

    Thread Starter brum-1

    (@brum-1)

    Vaughan,

    Thank you for your answer! That sounds like the right thing, although I’m new to WP and template scripting, so I’ll check it out.

    .brum

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