How to sort pages of paginator?

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I have a lot of pages that represent books. They have a taxonomy called “author” so I can list all the books by a specific author easily.

On the section page of books (/book/), I would like to list all the authors with the book titles, e.g.:
Author1 - Book1
Author1 - Book2
Author2 - Book3
Author3 - Book4

What I need is a sorted paginator (sorted by the author’s name and then by the book’s title). sort .Paginator.Pages "Params.authors" "asc" doesn’t seem to work, I have tried some other possibilities as well without success. How should one do this?

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I’ve never used paginator before, but if it follows the same rules as ordering normal pages, give this a whirl:

{{ range .Paginator.Pages.ByParam "authors" }}
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Thanks for the comment, but sadly the code does not work :frowning:
I tried to play around with different parameters but nothing seems to change, the “initial order” is kept (.Paginator.Pages).

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You need to use .Paginate – as you need to sort them before you paginate them.

So

{{ range (.Paginate (.Pages.ByParam "authors")).Pages }}

Or variations of that.

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Sorry, but still no success. :slight_smile: I am starting to think that it has something to do with the fact that authors is a taxonomy and the value of it is a list.

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I suspect you need to show us the site source or something (GitHub link?) because it’s hard to guess.

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Here you are @bep :

Note that authors -> szerzok because it is in Hungarian. (And I failed to make it “appear in links and html in Hungarian” but keep the variable names in English - Taxonomy terms page permalink - how to change it?)

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@zwbetz @bep Could any of you guys kindly please take a look? This is a showstopper on my side which I cannot really fix on my own.

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  1. The sort is on a section page that is a “list page”. The following layout is used:
    https://github.com/gabre/ppek-demo/blob/master/layouts/_default/list.html#L12
  2. This Hugo code is called, note ByParam and the “fallback” to string mode (by carrying out a string casting) if the selected parameter is not a number:
    https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/master/resources/page/pages_sort.go#L339
  3. String cast in case of a taxonomy that is a string slice results in an error (ToStringE in cast library) that is then swallowed in ToString (cast library, again).
    https://github.com/spf13/cast/blob/master/cast.go#L103

@zwbetz @bep may I kindly ask you to reply whether this is intended behaviour or am I wrong somewhere? What is the solution? Dropping usage of taxonomies in my case?

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Am not sure, as I’m not too familiar with custom taxonomies, or paginators. Maybe someone else can help you.

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Your .Params.szerzok is an array, which I suspect is why your sort does not work.

Try instead:

  1. Order szerzok taxonomy: https://gohugo.io/templates/taxonomy-templates/#taxonomy-methods
  2. Get pages asociated with taxonomy
  3. Paginate page list, which now has been presorted by szerzok from #1 
{{ $pagslice := slice }}
{{ range (.Site.Taxonomies.szerzok.Alphabetical) }} {{/* #1 */}}
  {{range .Pages}} {{/* #2 */}}
    {{$pagslice = $pagslice | append .Page }}
  {{end}}
{{ end }}

{{ range (.Paginate $pagslice 1).Pages }} {{/* #3; .Paginate ... 1 to force pagination on small number of pages */}} 
  {{.Params.szerzok }}, {{ .Params.Title }}<br>
{{ end }}

{{ partial "pagination.html" . }}
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