Combing conditional (section) with limiting range to exactly three entries from two different sections?

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I’d like to sort all site pages by most recent publish date and and only grab the first 3. I can do this via the following: {{ first 3 range .Site.Pages.ByPublishDate.Reverse}}

I also only want the article if the section is equal to “tutorials” or “articles,” which I can do with the following {{if or (eq .Section "articles") (eq .Section "tutorials")}}.

What I’m trying to accomplish is combining these two conditions. So I want to grab the three most recently published articles and tutorials (two different sections) so that I can display them in a single list on the homepage.

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I had a similar “double conditional” requirement once, when building an ‘Archive’ section which had to show only articles of type ‘post’ while also also exlcuding the newest ten articles [which were on a separate ‘News’ page.

This is what I came up with*. You might be able to adapt it for your needs:

{{ $paginator := .Paginate (after 10 (where .Data.Pages "Type" "post")) }}

[*The phrase “came up with” shouldn’t be taken to imply mastery of the template syntax. It means I just kept hitting it with random pairs of brackets til the error messages stopped and it did what I wanted]

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@stiobhart Thanks! I got it to work with the following:

{{ range first 3 (where .Site.Pages.ByPublishDate.Reverse "Type" "!=" "singletons")}}
{{ end }}

The reason for this modification is that I have two different types (ie, “Articles” and “Tutorials”) that I wanted to write to the page, and “singletons” is reserved for one-offs like /about, /contact, etc.