Sorting loops

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Can someone show me an example of how the twig sort filter works? I can’t find good examples anywhere. I have this:

{% set page_newsletter = page.find('/parents/newsletter') %}
{% for p in page_newsletter.children %}
  foo
{% endfor %}

I only want to get the first child page under /parents/newsletter ordered by date and sorted either asc or desc (so the oldest newsletter, or the latest).

Thanks

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  1. Obligatory reference to the documentation

  2. There are many themes that use the sort function. I’ve only created one, but here is one instance in that theme.

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Hi Perlkonig, sorry - I did read that doc page but it doesn’t tell me anything at all about how to use the actual function… and I still can’t see, even from your example. Do you know how I could use the sort filter to sort a loop by date? I don’t get it…

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It completely depends on how your data and templates are structured. The typical way is through page collections, which is how all the blog templates work.

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Hi Perlkonig, yeah I ended up working out how to make a page collection work for this. Thanks