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Reverse/swap post navigation in Wordpress default theme twentyseventeen

I'd like to swap the next/previous navigation buttons on a single post page so when clicking the 'next post' button on the right it navigates to an older post. So reversing the chronological order.

This might be more straightforward by editing the theme directly but I can't seem to figure what code to add to the functions.php when doing this using a child theme?

Thanks heaps

Solution

  • If you want to change the text only. It would be easy to edit single.php. But you want to swap their position, so this is the solution:

    1. Put this function into function.php: https://gist.github.com/jaredchu/3e3bcb866240d1d32a3b4ae55905b135#file-the_reverse_post_navigation

    2. In single.php, replace the_post_navigation by the_reverse_post_navigation:

    https://gist.github.com/jaredchu/3e3bcb866240d1d32a3b4ae55905b135#file-single-php