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Hi, I currently maintain a blog on blogger for travel pix, etc., but I really hate how Blogger (and all other blogs as far as I can tell), order posts in reverse chronological order (ie, most recent post first). When I'm telling about a trip, etc. I want my posts to be in chronological order (old post first).

can anyone recommend how to best to this (without coding my own website, etc.)?
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Start a thread in Ride Tales or set up your own Blog on HU. Very few will ever see an individual blog unless its family or close friends.
If you start a thread on Ride Tales then you reach everyone who reads the HUBB and HU. Its up to you to make it good enough to interest readers to keep coming back. Thread notification helps with this.

It's also "interactive". Some control freak types don't like any response from others "messing up" their story. But most travelers like the (mostly) encouraging words from both friends and strangers alike while on the road.
Also, offers of help may appear, advice, whatever.

This is how ADV rider was built ... ride reports. Some Ride Reports there have gone on for years and have over a million views and a hundred thousand posts. Several have built this exposure into a book deal. Others have become so popular the "community" ends up supporting the rider, setting up a Pay Pal account to keep him going on the road. But ADV is about 90% American. Americans are generous to a fault.
Here .... ah, not so much!
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not looking to do ride reports, or for a wide audience. Just a journal for my own future reference and family and friends. Not interested in doing this on HUBB or ADVRider.
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Hi

Not sure if it is any help, but I also wanted my blog in chronological order. I ended up using Wordpress and each time I made a blog entry(or in your case a diary entry) I edited the date so it would appear when I wanted it to and where. This allowed me to post days behind and only one post per page, which is basically the only way to do that with a blog style system.

It worked for me, check out my web page and you can see on the top left, the calander and drop down box for different months and years etc.

It may not suit you, but it may give you some ideas.

With mine, of course it would always show the latest post when you go to the page, but it is then easy to pick a date to start reading.

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Wordpress certainly looks more powerful than blogger, I'm sorry I didn't start with WP. That said, I don't think that it does exactly what I want to to do, either. It is such a simple thing to put posts in chronological order rather than reverse order, not sure why it is so hard to find what I'm looking for.
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I hear you. I also found the reverse chronological order silly unless you blog as you go.

Wordpress can be tweaked to show the oldest post first with a plugin called "Custom Query String" (Download @ MoshuBlog). I have done that on my blog. The plugin allows to tweak the order of different categories, i.e. you could set it up to list all post for past trips in ascending chronological order and the current trip in reverse order.
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