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user254694
user254694

Reputation: 1612

How to make docpad @document collection sort descending by timestamp

working on my docpad blog, in testing I see sorting is descending by the title, but most blogs are sorted ascending.

How would you suggest solving this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 716

Answers (2)

greduan
greduan

Reputation: 4938

There are several ways to do this. In fact you can order it by name, extension, date etc.

Since you want to have it sorted by date you need to add a date meta entry to your file:

---
title: Post name
layout: post
date: 2013-09-26
---
Post content blah blah blah.

The focus is on the date entry, it's format is YEAR-MONTH-DAY.

Then you can have the following:

@getCollection('html').findAllLive({relativeOutDirPath:'posts'},[{date:-1}])

The important part being [{date:-1}]. That would put the latest posts first, if you want it the other way around make it just a one without the -: [{date:1}]

Hope that helps!

Oh BTW, that example I provided is from a more complex query: https://github.com/Greduan/eduantech.docpad/blob/d5e97638331ab24730d3331b9fbcc30cf1d46dcc/docpad.coffee#L45-L49

Upvotes: 0

user254694
user254694

Reputation: 1612

In docpad.coffee I added

posts: ->   @getCollection('documents').findAllLive({relativeOutDirPath:'blog'},[timestamp:-1])

and then I add a timestamp to all the markdown files.

Upvotes: 2

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