[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #49912: Global setting to show tag content in ascending/chronological order

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#49912: Global setting to show tag content in ascending/chronological order
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 Reporter:  cbwright         |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General          |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal           |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                   |
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 WordPress tags can be used to group content together into small groups
 that are very good at showing the history of a topic and how it evolved
 over time. For example, you could use a tag to group together a 10 part
 series of articles that all belong to a category shared with other topics,
 and use that tag to allow a visitor to see all of those topics at once.

 Unfortunately, because WordPress defaults showing content with the most
 recent content first (descending order), it requires the user to scroll
 down to the bottom of a list in order to go through that content
 chronologically. There are plugins that allow you view categories in
 ascending (chronological) order, but they don't extend to tags. And you
 can add ?order=asc to any individual tag link to switch the order, but
 there's no built-in way to make this default behavior.

 Having a radio button that, when checked, would append "?order=asc" to the
 end of any tag link would allow the site owner to show all tags
 chronologically, allowing them to be used as mini-archives within a
 category. Also adding it to the individual tag pages would further allow
 the site owner to set specific tags as chronological and others as
 "standard," depending on need.

 This could also be added to categories, though there are plugins out there
 that already do this.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49912>
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