Showing your oldest blog-post start out - in addition to the residue inward opposite order.

Blogger doesn't convey an alternative to display your posts inwards contrary lodge - thence that the oldest post service is first, in addition to the most recent post service is last.  

But this article describes displaying your posts inwards this way yesteryear manipulating their post service dates.  And it links to an article almost around other possible options.



Previously I've discussed the options for giving your spider web log a dwelling household page.  One alternative is to organise the post-date for each of your posts, thence that yous command the lodge posts are displayed in.

This is slow plenty to do, although in that place are a distich of risks that yous request to live aware of every bit discussed below.


Blogger Posts in addition to the Post-date

Each Post inwards your spider web log has a date-time value, which is called its "post-date".   Normally , this is ready to the date/time when yous position out the post service for the outset time.  But yous tin hand notice change the post service engagement for whatever post, in addition to yous tin hand notice exercise this either when yous position out it first, or afterwards on.

The post-date is of import because it controls the lodge that posts are shown in:
  • The post service that appears outset when a reader visits your spider web log is the ane amongst the most-recent Post-date.
  • If yous convey to a greater extent than than ane post-per-screen, in addition to thence the next-most-recent post service is on the covert underneath the outset one.  And in addition to thence the second-next-most-recent, etc.

When a reader is looking at whatever post, in addition to they click Newer-Posts or Older-Posts, the post-date is used to create upwards one's heed what posts to present on the side yesteryear side screen.

This way that you tin hand notice brand your posts appear inwards the lodge than yous wrote them (ie outset post service first, 2d post service second, etc) yesteryear changing the Post-date thence that:
  • your outset post service has the most-recent post-date, 
  • your 2d post service has the next-most-recent-date, 
  • your 3rd post service has the third-most-recent poste date
  • etc

An alternative approach is to only make ane post service ever appear first, in addition to allow the other posts appear inwards the lodge that yous posted them.


How to brand your posts appear inwards contrary order, using dates

1  Give your outset Post a post-date (eg today), AND remember that date.

2  Give all other posts (even ones that yous write side yesteryear side week, or side yesteryear side year) a post-date that is before than the post-date yous picked inwards Step 1.
  • If yous desire your posts is strictly contrary order, yous request to hand each ane a engagement that is before than whatever existing post.  This is quite easy:  only expect at the listing of posts inwards Posting > Edit Posts in addition to scroll to the bottom of the listing to encounter the oldest engagement used thence far.
3  Turn off the post-date display on your posts (since the post-date won't brand sense, because you're manipulating the dates).

  • To exercise this, teach to the Layout tab.  
  • Choose Blog-posts (edit).    
  • Un-tick the engagement nether "Post Page Options".

4  Remember to brand the same engagement alter for every post service yous write from at in ane trial on.

Also, if it mightiness live relevant for your readers to know when yous wrote a post, brand sure enough that yous ever manually position the engagement into each post.


Risks of this approach

If yous follow this approach, yous volition hand a far-in-the-past engagement to pages that yous never desire to appear first.  There is a endangerment that Google mightiness convert the information behind older posts at around time.   If your post-dates teach also far into the past, in addition to thence it's possible that they mightiness non teach by good this.   This could live for reasons that seem logical, or because of things that are totally to exercise amongst the internal workings of Blogger's database, in addition to brand no feel to yous at all.

Also, live aware that Google mightiness guide to forcefulness the post-date to appear on posts at around fourth dimension inwards the future.  At the moment, they don't:  it's your choice.   But yous cannot guarantee that they won't alter their minds almost this, ane day.   (Personally I think they in all probability won't, in addition to I've built a distich of "real" websites that brand locomote of the technique described here.   Just cry back it's non guaranteed.)


An Alternative Approach

Adam of Too-Clever-by-Half  has suggested a totally unlike way to display your posts inwards contrary order.   I haven't used it, but think that it has a lot of potential inwards around situations, provided yous are comfortable using Yahoo pipes in addition to RSS feeds to display things on your blog.

He has also lately shared another approach he found, which uses a script to manipulate elements inside Blogger, in addition to thence is to a greater extent than robust than his outset approach.




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