How to filter mainSections posts based on frontmatter dates

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I have posts in various directories. I want to focus my top page on posts in my /events directory. The frontmatter of each “event” post includes eventDate.

I want to show upcoming events separately from old events. I was able to make (theme)/events/list.html show events the way I want.

I want this list of events to be my top page, so I put “events” in mainSections of my config.toml, but have not figured out how to get (theme)/list.html to both filter on mainSection AND on frontmatter.

I have a test repo here GitHub - thunderrabbit/bfr-evention: how to use frontmatter to filter pages in mainSection?

I found Group And Filter Site mainSections but cannot understand how to apply it to my situation.

How can I show only upcoming events on my top page?

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The simplest approach:

{{ range where (where .Site.RegularPages "Type" "events") "Params.eventDate" "ge" now }}
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TLDR: solution at bottom of this reply

Thank you for your quick reply. I have tried your suggestion as the following, but it gives an empty page:

{{ $future_events := where (where .Site.RegularPages "Type" "events") "Params.eventDate" "ge" now }}
{{ range sort $future_events "Params.eventdate" "desc" }}

If I remove the outer where the page shows events, but also includes events that are older than now.

{{ $future_events := (where .Site.RegularPages "Type" "events") }}
{{ range sort $future_events "Params.eventdate" "desc" }}

I tried replacing now with (now.Format "2006-01-02"), which works on my events.html template, but it shows an empty page.

{{ $future_events := where (where .Site.RegularPages "Type" "events") ".Params.EventDate" "ge" (now.Format "2006-01-02") }}
{{ range sort $future_events "Params.eventdate" "desc" }}

Oh wow this works! It looks like the main difference from your code is lowercase eventdate

{{ $future_events := where (where .Site.RegularPages "Type" "events") ".Params.eventdate" "ge" (now.Format "2006-01-02") }}
{{ range sort $future_events "Params.eventdate" "desc" }}
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Please edit your reply to use lowercase eventdate and I will mark it accepted.

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No. With v0.83.0 and later the key is case insensitive.