Arbitrary Page Ordering

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Arbitrary Page Ordering

As long as #420 isn't resolved, you can get your pages (or articles, or whatever) in an arbitrary order of your choice with two little tricks:

• In the for loop rendering out your menu, add a sort filter to sort by filename: ..

  {% for p in PAGES|sort(attribute='filename') %}

  <li{% if p == page %} class="active"{% endif %}><a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ p.url }}">{{ p.title }}</a></li>

  {% endfor %}

• Prepend your page file names with numbers, e.g. 00about.rst, 10projects.rst and so on.

This will get the pages in the order of your choice without messing up your slug. (Default page ordering is putting a case-sensitive alphabetical order by slug, in case you wondered.)