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RE: Change the display order on a Blog

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Pete Helgren, modified 5 Years ago.
Change the display order on a Blog
Regular Member Posts: 225 Join Date: 4/7/11 Recent Posts
I would like to change the order in which blog entries display.  It appears that the current list shows the most recent blog entry first but I have a use case where I want the oldest blog entry to display first and then newest one last.  Is there an easy way to do this?  I looked at the configuration settings on the widget as well as the individual entries and can't seem to find an option to change display sort order.
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Fernando Fernandez, modified 5 Years ago.
RE: Change the display order on a Blog
Expert Posts: 401 Join Date: 8/22/07 Recent Posts
Hi Pete,
Maybe you can try using the asset publisher portlet? It has lots of ordering and filtering options.
HTH
Fernando
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Pete Helgren, modified 5 Years ago.
RE: Change the display order on a Blog
Regular Member Posts: 225 Join Date: 4/7/11 Recent Posts
Thanks.  So how do I use that in tandem with the existing blog posts I have?  The blog entries are on a content page.  I tried adding a new page that was a widget page.  Added an Asset Publisher widget.  Then clicked on the "+" on the Asset Publisher and added a Blog Entry (multiples, actually) and configured the Asset publisher to dynamically select Blog Entries.  But nothing displays.  

I'll do some more reading on Asset Publisher.  It seems pretty full featured...if I could get it to work....
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Pete Helgren, modified 5 Years ago.
RE: Change the display order on a Blog
Regular Member Posts: 225 Join Date: 4/7/11 Recent Posts
Ok...so the "no results" issue was because I needed to do a few things.  Not sure if ElasticSearch is used here but I had noticed earlier that ElasticSearch was throwing some errors.  Ended up being an IPV6 issue (I think).  Restarted LR.  Still no joy on seeing results.  So I went to Search under control panel --> Configuration and tried to reindex all.  Didn't work.  But found a reference to a KB that mentioned indexing the spell checker first.  Which I did.  Then reindexed everything and now I see results in the asset publisher.  
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Found a good tutorial on how to customize the look and feel so I may be out of the woods on this.  Thanks again for the pointer.