Display a collection of manually ordered pages in the right order on the home page

The CMS Questions
1

I have a collection of pages (that serve as project entries) which I can sort manually in the panel. On the homepage I would like to list them in the same order. However, they are getting sorted in a way a can’t fathom. Any help would be much appreciated!

The Page Blueprint Projects

title: Projects

sections:
  projects:
    type: pages
    info: "{{ page.date }}"
    sortable: true
    layout: cards
    image:
      ratio: 4/6
      cover: true
    template: project

The Page Blueprint for a single project

Not sure if this is relevant.

I have tried to set num: true in this blueprint. This resulted in the loss of the drag & drop functionality in the pabel.

title: Project

columns:
  - width: 1/2
    sections:
      info:
        type: fields
        fields:
          date:
            label: Date
            type: text
          photocredits:
            label: Photography Credits (optional)
            type: text
  - width: 1/2
    sections:
      previewimg:
        label: Preview Image for Homepage (optional)
        type: files
        template: previewimg
        layout: list
        sortable: false
        max: 1
      projecttexts:
        label: Project Texts (PDF)
        template: projecttexts
        type: files
        layout: list
        sortable: true
        empty: No documents yet
      projectimages:
        label: Project Images (JPG, PNG, GIF)
        info: "{{ file.caption }}"
        template: projectimages
        type: files
        layout: cards
        empty: No images yet
        sortable: true
        image:
          ratio: 1/1

The Controller «home»

<?php
return function ($site, $page) {
  // data for the template
  return array(
    'projects' => page('projects')->children()->listed()->sortBy('sort'),
  );
};

I was hoping to get same order I created manually in the panel by applying sortBy('sort') as mentioned in the documentation relating to the sorting of files. However, I get a totally different order I can’t figure out.

I am not sure if I messed up in the blueprints or in the way I query the projects.

Version etc.

  • Kirby 4.7.2
  • php 8.3
  • ddev environment
2

If they have default number sorting, this, without the sort() method, should already return them sorted. If anything, you would sort by num, not by sort, a page doesn’t have a sort property.

3

Thank you for answering so quickly!
This solved my problem :partying_face: