Title: posts_nav_link() wrong direction
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# posts_nav_link() wrong direction

 *  Resolved [qmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qmedia/)
 * (@qmedia)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-wrong-direction/)
 * Hello everyone,
    For reference, my site is at [http://www.stevenbao.com](http://www.stevenbao.com).
   I’m having a problem with `<?php posts_nav_link(); ?>`.
 * On the front page of my blog, I opt to list the newest 10 articles. I then go
   to the bottom to see older articles, but it says “Next Page” instead of “Previous
   Page”.
 * I’m using the standard `<?php posts_nav_link(); ?>` tag.
 * Please help! Thank you.

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 *  [onseduction](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onseduction/)
 * (@onseduction)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-wrong-direction/#post-424270)
 * The ‘next’ actually means previous in time. This might be confusing. If you want
   you can change the template tag so it displays something less ambiguous.
 *  Thread Starter [qmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qmedia/)
 * (@qmedia)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-wrong-direction/#post-424276)
 * Thanks for the response, OnSeduction.
    How would I go about doing that? Thank
   you.
 *  [onseduction](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onseduction/)
 * (@onseduction)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-wrong-direction/#post-424299)
 * This page will help
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/posts_nav_link](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/posts_nav_link)
 *  Thread Starter [qmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qmedia/)
 * (@qmedia)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-wrong-direction/#post-424305)
 * Hmm. Not sure what the syntax would be to reverse it. I’ll mess around.
 * EDIT: Got it. WordPress should fix this so the “last” page is the fresh content…
 * Thanks OnSeduction!
 *  [ladydelaluna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladydelaluna/)
 * (@ladydelaluna)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-wrong-direction/#post-424475)
 * qmedia – then you’d have to click through to the end to see your most recent 
   posts? that doesn’t make sense, and across the board, is not how blogs work…

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 * [posts_nav_link](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts_nav_link/)

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [ladydelaluna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladydelaluna/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts_nav_link-wrong-direction/#post-424475)
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