I can’t seem to figure this one out. It might not even be possible in its current form. I am trying to sort content in my template by the first element of a slice in my content’s front matter. My content front matter: — title: Example dates: - 2019-05-30T14:30:00.000Z - 2019-06-03T11:30:00.00…

WHAT are you trying to sort? The three dates or three posts that are indicated by those dates? Simple sorting would be {{ range sort .Params.dates }}{{ . }} {{ end }} {{ range sort .Params.dates "asc" }}{{ . }} {{ end }} {{ range sort .Params.dates "desc" }}{{ . }} {{ end }} but I am not sure wha…

Sorry for not being clear. I am trying to sort all the content (of that type) by the first element of the dates slice.

There is a function called first that returns the first x slices. Use it with 1 and it should get you the first parameter. [image] first Slices an array to only the first _N_ elements. The sort function then: [image] sort Sorts maps, arrays, and slice…

I was thinking about that as well, however the sort template function doesn’t support sorting by the provided value but only a key. And unfortunately it is not possible to specify an element of a slice by it’s index in the key. I have extended hugo to support this, see pull request .

Sort by first element in front matter slice

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Sort by first element in front matter slice

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