By default Joomla displays articles on Category/Section Blog or List pages in the order in which you publish them. You can, however, change change the ordering method to one of the following:

• alphabetical ascending or descending, by title
• oldest or newest first
• ordering (the order in which the articles appear in the Article Manager).

To specify the ordering of Section or Category Blogs/Lists pages:

1. On the Menus menu, click the menu that contains the Category/Section Blog/List link.
   ***To configure the Front Page Manager instead of a section or category blog, click in the default or Home page link in the menu manager.
2. On the Parameters (Basic) for the article, specify the number of leading articles,  intro articles, intro article columns (normally, you'll have room for only two columns), and article links.
   
   
3. Click Parameters (Advanced) and specify the primary order in which to display articles on the Category/Section Blog or List page. Default or Order will order the articles in the order they appear on the Articles Manager screen.
   
   Note: Select Order if you want the ability to order the articles using the Articles Manager screen. If you select order, follow the procedure below for ordering articles.
   
   
   Advanced Article Parameters Configuration
   
4. Click Save and then view the Section or Category page to verify that the order you specified have been applied.

To specify a custom article order:

If you selected Order or Default in the previous procedure, use this procedure to specify the order of articles on a Category/Section Blog or List page:

1. On the Content menu, click Article Manager
   Joomla displays the Article Manager screen.
   *** To order articles in the Front Page Manager articles, click Content > Front Page Manager.
   
   
   Article Manager Screen
2. In the Article Manager screen, select the section and category whose order you want to change.
3. In the Order column, type the order number for each article and then click the Save icon next to Order to save the new article order.

Note - You can also reorder articles by click the Reorder arrow in the article's row.