Christopher Chelpka

Like most blog themes, my current theme uses reverse chronological order to display posts. Newest posts show first.

I like this, but I wanted the opposite to happen when the posts are displayed as part of a category. This would allow me to create blogchains (like these) where readers could read a series of posts in the order in which they were written.

Happily, blogs hosted on Micro.blog can customize their themes. Here’s I did that to display category posts with the oldest posts showing first.

1. Find the custom templates custom theme.

2. In the config.json file, between the first and last curly brackets in the file, add the following:

     "taxonomies": { 
     	"category": "categories"
    	}
   

3. Click “Create New Template”

4. Add the following file name and code, then click “Update Template”:

I figured this out using the following Hugo help pages. They also explain how you can order your posts in other ways, such as alphabetically or by length.

• Content Management: Taxonomies
• Lists of Content in Hugo

I’m on a learning adventure to master the fundamentals of cursive penmenship. It’s a relaxed adventure. More of a stroll, actually.

My kids are fellow travelers, some ahead and some behind me. They are learning a cursive script at school and leave artifacts of their learning around the house, which impress and encourage me. Yesterday, my son was having some Outside Time during which wrote his name on some concrete with a piece of found charcoal.

So, one or two evenings week, I’ll sit at the dining table with my wife. And while she works on her art, I’ll work through another lesson in The Art of Cursive Penmenship: 86 lessons by Master Penmen and composer of American Cursive, Michael R. Sull.