I'm displaying some posts and I want each of them to display a post number. The first post being number 1, the most recent post being 10 (let's say there's 10 posts.)

I'm currently using

<?php echo $wp_query->current_post + 1?>

Which works except the newest post is 1 and the oldest post is 10. How do I reverse this?

I'm displaying some posts and I want each of them to display a post number. The first post being number 1, the most recent post being 10 (let's say there's 10 posts.)

I'm currently using

<?php echo $wp_query->current_post + 1?>

Which works except the newest post is 1 and the oldest post is 10. How do I reverse this?

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You can give a try to this within a loop

<?php 
      echo $wp_query->found_posts - $wp_query->current_post ;
?>

$wp_query->found_posts gives the total number of posts found matching the current query parameters.

So the if there are 20 posts, result for each post should look like this

For 1st post it will display 20, i.e. 20-0=20
For 2nd post it will display 19, i.e. 20-1=19, ...
...
...
For 12th post it will display 9, i.e. 20-11=9, and
For 20th post it will display 1, i.e. 20-19=1,