From 4daa6044e6a2de990683c3f31236394211f72140 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Wyraz <michael@wyraz.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:30:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #697: Add setting `order_sections_by_date`

---
 exampleSite/config.toml | 3 +++
 layouts/index.html      | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/exampleSite/config.toml b/exampleSite/config.toml
index cd3325cf7..4e0d6e66b 100644
--- a/exampleSite/config.toml
+++ b/exampleSite/config.toml
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ enableRobotsTXT = true
   background_color_class = "bg-black"
   recent_posts_number = 3
 
+  # Sort sections by date (oldest first)
+  #order_sections_by_date = true
+
 [[params.ananke_socials]]
 name = "twitter"
 url = "https://twitter.com/GoHugoIO"
diff --git a/layouts/index.html b/layouts/index.html
index 4b826a11f..68fada25f 100644
--- a/layouts/index.html
+++ b/layouts/index.html
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@
     {{ $section_name := . }}
     {{/* Create a variable with that section to use in multiple places. */}}
     {{ $section := where $.Site.RegularPages "Section" "in" $section_name }}
+
+    {{ if $.Site.Params.order_sections_by_date | default false }}
+    {{ $section = $section.ByDate }}
+    {{ end }}
+    
     {{ $section_count := len $section }}
     {{ if ge $section_count 1 }}
       <div class="pa3 pa4-ns w-100 w-70-ns center">