Group by section with custom ordering

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How do I use a custom odering for sections defined in the front matter of the _index.md files?

_index.md of the different sections is as follows:

---
title: "Posts"
ordering: 1
---

I list all pages on the homepage and group by section, but I want a custom section order not defined by the section key

{{ range .Data.Pages.GroupBy "Section" }}
	<h3>{{ ($.Site.GetPage "section" .Key).Title }}</h3>
	<ul>
		{{ range .Pages }}
			<li>
				<a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a>
			</li>
		{{ end }}
	</ul>
{{ end }}

So how do I order the section by the ordering parameter in the _index.md?

2

Perhaps this example helps:

{{ range .Data.Pages.GroupByParam "chapter" }}
    {{ range sort .Pages "summary" }}
        {{ .Title }}
    {{ end }}
{{ end }}
3

I tried that but it does not find the Parameter.

ERROR 2017/11/15 12:13:19 Error while rendering "home": template: theme/index.html:6:15: executing "theme/index.html" at <.Data.Pages.GroupByP...>: error calling GroupByParam: There is no such a param

4

Oh, sorry, .GroupByParam is just an example. Did you try it with your {{ range .Data.Pages.GroupBy "Section" }}?

5

Yeah, that works. But the question is how do I sort the groups by a custom param?

6

There are several examples on the sort function doc. In case sort wasn’t making sense in Leo’s example.

7

This does not throw an error

range sort (.Data.Pages.GroupBy "Section") .Params.ordering

But the param value has no influence on the sorting…

I can see that .Data.Pages does not even contain an ordering Param. Remember, I wanted to put it into the _index.md of the different archetypes

8

I can do this easily if I put the section order number into the archetype of each post type. But I would not like to repeat it and instead just put it into the _index.md of each content subdirectory. Is that not a good idea?

I also tried to add the order numer from the _index.md into the .Site.Pages array by doing something like this, but I could not get it to work:

range apply .Site.Pages "union" "." "($.Site.GetPage "section" .Type).Params.ordering"

In this way I wanted to add the ordering number to each page.

Any ideas on how to to this?

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