# Sort a range by custom param
**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sort-a-range-by-custom-param/17382
**Category:** support
**Created:** [March 4, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sort-a-range-by-custom-param/17382 "2019-03-04T19:44:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@TheQuant](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/TheQuant)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sort-a-range-by-custom-param/17382/1 "2019-03-04T19:44:07Z")
I use the following code to display 6 projects (the code is from the academic-theme).
Per default it is sorted by the date field:
```
{{ range $idx, $item := first 6 (where $.Site.RegularPages "Type" ($page.Params.folder | default "project")) }}
{{ $link := $item.RelPermalink }}
...
{{ end }}
```
I added a custom parameter to each item:
```auto
[Params]
date_sort = 2018-06-24T00:00:00
```
Now I want to sort this range by my new paramter “date\_sort” in descending order. How can I do this?
I tried this, but it has no effect:
```auto
{{ range $idx, $item := first 6 (sort (where $.Site.RegularPages "Type" ($page.Params.folder | default "project")) ".Params.date_sort" "desc") }}
```
Thanks for your help.
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### Author:  [@zwbetz](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/zwbetz)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sort-a-range-by-custom-param/17382/2 "2019-03-04T20:12:23Z")
We would need to see more than that code snippet to better help. Can you share your project?
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### Author:  [@TheQuant](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/TheQuant)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sort-a-range-by-custom-param/17382/3 "2019-03-04T20:27:33Z")
Basically it’s the academic theme, this file in line 70:
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I just added the “first 6” but now I want to do the sort as well.
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### Author:  [@zwbetz](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/zwbetz)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sort-a-range-by-custom-param/17382/4 "2019-03-04T20:35:29Z")
You could try breaking it up to debug it
```nohighlight
{{ $pages := where $.Site.RegularPages "Type" ($page.Params.folder | default "project") }}
{{ range $idx, $item := first 6 (sort $pages ".Params.date_sort" "desc") }}
```
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### Author:  [@TheQuant](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/TheQuant)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sort-a-range-by-custom-param/17382/5 "2019-03-04T21:19:27Z")
Doesn’t change anything. I think the problem is, that I should write “$item.Params.date\_sort” because each item has the correct date\_sort.
But the $item is not known at this position, only inside the range.
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### Author:  [@TheQuant](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/TheQuant)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sort-a-range-by-custom-param/17382/6 "2019-03-04T21:39:04Z")
I found the solution.
I had to remove the [Params] header in my pages. Now the sort works.
Thanks for your time.
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### Author:  [@alexandros](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/alexandros)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sort-a-range-by-custom-param/17382/7 "2020-02-28T08:12:37Z")