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How to have newer comments appear first?

I saw a similar questions posted a year ago, and I'm hoping this option has been added. Basically I'd like to have the most recent comments appear first. I saw in the discussion the following option.

Comments should be displayed with the "newer" comments at the top of each page.

I checked this option, but my older comments still appear first. What am I doing wrong.

This is a link to my web page: http://mindfulscience.edublogs.org/ap-biology-09-10/

Thanks in advance.

Adrienne

Answers from fellow members and edublogs support

I saw a similar questions posted a year ago, and I'm hoping this option has been added.

That checkbox you're looking at is rather new while many of the themes here were written for the older software version that we used to have here. The themes probably haven't been updated for that feature yet.

James is going to have to check on this though.

Thanks for looking into this. I'll check for a reply in a couple of days.

Adrienne

I know the themes are being reworked though. I did list it on the todo list for the themes:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/theme-pack-upgrade-requests/page/2

Yes, I am wondering how to do this as well, am I doing something incorrectly? I am having students who have no experience with blogs posting and they are seeing comments from a year ago first. I lose a bit of integrity when I tell them how important current technology is when I can't fix this......they are also more engaged if/when they see their postings at the top.
Help.

Actually it's customary for the oldest comments to come first. That's how a blog is defined. (In fact how a forum works as well.) Normally one reads from the top of a page to the bottom.

I'm sure James is working on adding in support for this into the themes. Please remember there's over a hundred of them. It's not something that happens overnight.

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