The default for viewing forums seems to be "newest first", which is backwards from every other forum software, and the opposite of what people expect to see. I know that they can change it in their profile, but most non-techy users will not realize that or do it if they do.

Is there a way to make the default set to "oldest first" so people don't get confused?

What forum software are you using?

Joomlaboard, latest version

Does anyone have an answer for this?

I also need to this as well.

In fact, if I turn on the feature that lets users change their forum settings the changes don't get saved, so no matter what I do I get the newest posts on top which is backward.

I am also using Joomla Board.

I know that this is a pretty old thread but I thought that I'd go ahead and put the answer here anyway so that people searching for it in the future would still be able to find the answer.

Anyway to fix it:


In View.php find this :


$orderingNum = 0;
} else {
$orderingNum = 1;

and change to this:

$orderingNum = 0;
} else {
$orderingNum = 0;

It worked for me...Hope that it helps

I know that this is a pretty old thread but I thought that I'd go ahead and put the answer here anyway so that people searching for it in the future would still be able to find the answer.

Anyway to fix it:


In View.php find this :


$orderingNum = 0;
} else {
$orderingNum = 1;

and change to this:

$orderingNum = 0;
} else {
$orderingNum = 0;

It worked for me...Hope that it helps