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Moving posts order
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Somjai Siangwilai
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Mar 24, 2015 - 11:28 pm

I wanted to move some posts from a topic so I created a new topic and added a couple new posts. Then I went to a thread where I wanted to move a sequential series of posts to my new topic.

But when I did this it added those moved posts to the beginning of the topic in front of the first ones I created.

So 2 questions:

  1. Why did this happen and how to prevent it in the future?
  2. How can I reorder these posts now into the correct order?

Thanks for any help you can support me with.

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Mr Papa
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Mar 25, 2015 - 12:32 am

posts are sorted in post id order, which is essentially the same as date order (ids are assigned as they occur)...  this is magnitudes of order faster than an actual date order...  and the id of the post cannot readily be changed...

and in this case sounds just right... the existing posts were older than the newly created ones so when you moved the older ones, they showed up before the newer ones...

if you want to change the order, you would need to manually change the post ids in the db....  and even then, I would recommend against it because you would need to make sure all references to post id in the database and cache match up...

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