# Insert or re-order posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-or-re-order-posts/30454
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 25, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-or-re-order-posts/30454 "2015-06-25T17:15:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@mottosso](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mottosso)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-or-re-order-posts/30454/1 "2015-06-25T17:15:35Z")
An edge case, I’m sure, but wanted to ask if there’s any way to insert or re-order posts in a thread?
I ask because I’m working on a series of posts that all correlate with each other, like a story (a tutorial, really), from one post to the next. But it’s a work in progress, and sometimes I find myself wanting to insert a post inbetween two others.
It’s fine if the solution is to enter a dark backend somewhere and fuddle the numbers myself, but if so, is it straightforward enough for a non-Ruby developer to grasp? Here’s hoping for a hidden button somewhere in the GUI.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-or-re-order-posts/30454/2 "2015-06-26T01:39:20Z")
There is no way to do this at the current time. But like “set post owner”, there probably should be.
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### Author:  [@mottosso](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mottosso)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-or-re-order-posts/30454/3 "2015-06-26T10:19:35Z")
Ok, thanks for letting me know.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-or-re-order-posts/30454/4 "2018-10-17T17:05:21Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-or-re-order-posts/30454/5 "2018-10-17T23:25:44Z")
> [@mottosso](#):
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> It’s fine if the solution is to enter a dark backend somewhere and fuddle the numbers myself
Technically you could mess with post\_numbers on the posts table and re-sequence stuff, you would need to be mega careful cause other tables also depend on that data so you would need to re-sequence stuff there as well.
My strong recommendation here would “don’t do it ™”. We may have some ultra long term plans for providing UI for resequencing a topic but there is nothing in the next few years planned.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-or-re-order-posts/30454/6 "2018-10-17T23:25:48Z")