Use hook to change order of child pages in site tree

[DrQuincy]

I have a template that has a date field attached to it and I use this to reverse sort items.

This works great for my blog feed. However, I want to use the same template for an events field. To save me managing an entirely separate template, is there a hook I can use that will uncheck the “reverse sort” checkbox dyanically?

So:

/blog/ sorts children per the template settings, most recent first
/events/ uses a hook to display pages date order ascending

Note I am only referring to the site tree in the admin. Obviously, on the front end I can easily use selectors to get the desired result.

Thanks.

 

[da²]

Hi,

You don't need a hook, you can sort children on the parent page:

[DrQuincy]

Thanks but I want to use different sorting dynamically though to avoid adding a separate template.

One is news, most recent first. The other is events where the date would be ascending since the dates would be in the future.

I hope that makes sense.

[da²]

Yes, you can do it by changing the parent page template sorting option. The child template doesn't change, only the sort option on parent page template.

/blog/ sorts children: most recent first
/events/ sorts children: date order ascending

Edited December 20, 2024 by da²

[DrQuincy]

Yes, good point, I don't need two different child templates. Thanks.