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Apologies if this has already been answered, could not find anything that helps in searching this site, the web, FAQs, etc. Based on the documentation this should be easy, but I'm not seeing the options in settings that are mentioned. Running v2.4.5 wpForo plugin on a WordPress 6.8.1 site (both auto update, this has been going on for a while).

There doesn't seem to be any visible setting in either each forum's settings screen or or to change "post display order" or "replies order" to be descending. This is on a self hosted server, is that option only available on WordPress hosted sites?

Example: https://members.marylandtesla.com/forum-general/general-event-discussions/summer-2025-light-show/#post-90

I want newest replies first. ChatGPT suggests I can use a PHP snippet to set $args['order'] = 'DESC' which I might end up doing, just wondering if I'm missing something painfully obvious...

Thanks.

Michael

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Hi,

I'm sorry, but there is currently no option available to change the order. I've contacted the developers to see if there's any workaround or solution I can provide you.

I'll update this topic as soon as I receive a response from them.

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OK, thanks for confirming I'm not missing something obvious at least. That code snippet that ChatGPT recommended did not work either, haven't really looked into it much past that.

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@mikesafh 

We suggest using the hook code provided by Robert in the following support topic: https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/how-to-sort-posts-in-a-thread-oldest-first/#post-15418

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