Regarding my last entry about reverse-ordered archives: If I’m gonna bitch about it, I guess I should tell you how to fix it, too.

If you’re using Movable Type, do this:

1. Go to your Editing Menu and select Templates.
2. From Templates, select Date-Based Archive from the Archive-Related Templates section at the bottom of the page.
3. In the code of the Date-Based Archive template, find the following text:

div class=”blog”>
MTEntries>
$MTEntryTrackbackData$>

4. Change the MTEntries> line to MTEntries sort_order=”ascend”>

• (Note: Each of those lines — everything I listed in italics — should begin with a “<" -- I had to take it out to write this entry because it wreaked havoc with my blog's formatting. I can't very well lecture you on how to format your blog when mine looks like crap, can I?)

5. Buy me something pretty as thanks for helping you get your blog right.

I’m still working on how to do this in TypePad, but I’ll post it when I get it, GraceDavis. For everyone else: if you’re not using some version of Movable Type, then you suck and you’re on your own.

Class dismissed!