CUNY Academic Commons

Yes, sorry!

https://8nsshl2021.commons.gc.cuny.edu/category/presentations/

Thanks for the link! It looks like you're running a plugin called Simple Custom Post Order. See settings at https://8nsshl2021.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=scporder-settings. This plugin is causing posts to be ordered by their 'menu_order' property. Looking at the way the plugin works, it appears that the list at https://8nsshl2021.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit.php can be dragged/dropped to reorder.

To get things back to reverse-chonological order, you should be able to simply disable the plugin, or uncheck 'Posts' on the plugin's settings panel.

Don't think so! I only activated SCP order plugin in an attempt to get the posts into the order we wanted. It was not activated when I started creating this ticket.

In my original ticket, I wrote:

"In addition, when I activate the simple Custom Post Order plugin in an attempt to get the posts to show in the order we want (happens to be alphabetical by title), that solution is also foiled."

I ended up deactivating SCP plugin, and instead using time stamps to order the posts, but they kept reverting to an unpredictable order.

(I deactivated it again just now, but in the past, this was always temporary. The only thing I can do is check back in a couple of weeks, to see if the post order reverts again!)

I ended up deactivating SCP plugin, and instead using time stamps to order the posts, but they kept reverting to an unpredictable order.

Can you clarify this? My original understanding was that the posts were appearing in an odd order despite the timestamps. But then you said that changing the timestamps does appear to change the order. Does this mean that the timestamps of the posts are mysteriously changing during the interim?