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Is there a way to manually force an order for channel entry lists? None of the options provided by the ‘orderby=’ parameter appear to allow this. I’m trying to order a list of events by the date of the events themselves rather than the publish date.

I found a way around this: When editing an entry, you can artificially change the entry date (under the ‘Date’ tab). So if you need a post to be located at a specific point in the list of entries, just enter a date that, for example, immediately follows the post you need it to appear after.

The REEorder module allowed for easier functionality of this type, but doesn’t appear to have been developed past EE 1.

An easier way would just be to use the “fixed_order” parameter in the Channel Entries tag if you know the order you want to output. It would save on modifying each entry date manually and allow the actual entry date to be used later on. As an example:

{exp:channel:entries channel="my_channel" fixed_order="5|8|2" sort="asc"}
...
{/exp:channel:entries}

Thanks for the suggestion Slippy 😊 I didn’t know you could do that. Although I think in this case it would be more cumbersome because the list in question is dynamically updated every time I post a new event, and using this method I would have to alter the EE tags in every part of the site where the list is called up (the homepage and numerous secondary pages).

But this is really useful for static lists and I’m sure it’ll come in handy in the future! Thanks :D

It always goes down to the individual use case but other ways of doing things are always useful to know for future reference.

No problem, happy to help. 😊

Hi roadRUNN3R,

Give Simply Order a look. Seems to be a straight forward and elegant way to your goal!

Cheers,

Oh, great! This will work. Thanks Dan 😊

Do you mind if I ask how you found this module? I tried searching on devot:ee before I wrote here but didn’t run across this one.

roadRUNN3R,

Glad to see that Dan was able to help you out. I would guess that Dan just did a search of Devot://ee which is an ExpressionEngine partner site with a listing of all known add-ons.

Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Sean

No, I’m good Sean 😊 Thanks again!

Hello roadRUNN3R,

That’s awesome that Dan and Sean were able to help you out!

We appreciate your participation in the forum!

Have a great weekend.

Cheers,