[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #6513: Older/Newer Post error in classic Theme

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#6513: Older/Newer Post error in classic Theme
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 Reporter:  private_meta           |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect                 |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  low                    |    Milestone:  2.5.1    
Component:  Template               |      Version:  2.5      
 Severity:  minor                  |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion  |  
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Comment (by Otto42):

 Replying to [comment:2 stevegk]:
 > Reading the codex entry
 http://codex.wordpress.org/Next_and_Previous_Links the patch also goes
 against the documentation. It seems that the function is returning next
 results when it should return previous results and vice versa.
 No, the codex was just wrong/confusing. I fixed it.

 Basically, the problem is that "previous" and "next" are not referring to
 chronological time, they are referring to pages and post ordering.

 Post ordering is arbitrary. It defaults to "post_date DESC", but it can be
 anything, really. If you change the query_posts to put it in ASC ordering,
 then the oldest post will show up first, and the previous/next links won't
 change. Oh, they'll point to different posts, but they'll still point to
 the previous/next posts in the given ordering.

 "Next" refers to the next post in the given ordering, whatever it may be.
 By default, "next" = "older posts". This is admittedly confusing if you
 think of next as forward in time, but it is actually forward in the
 returned set of posts from the database, whatever order they may be in.

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