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How do I change the order of blog posts?

robit hairman By 
June 25, 2012
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A blog on your NationBuilder website will always show the most recent post first, and then go back by publication date. If you'd like to highlight a post by bringing it to the top of the list, change the publication date of the post to be today's date.

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  • Kara Barlow
    NationBuilder employee
    responded with completed
    posted 2016-06-22 10:21:50 -0700
  • Collin Jensen
    Certified Developer
    Certified NationBuilder Developer
    tagged this with Not helpful
    posted 2015-08-03 22:29:47 -0700
  • Isa Stamos
    commented
    Having trouble with this. My blog posts are in the order I want them to be by date – but they are showing up with the OLDEST first. Very frustrating. Using the Aware theme. Any advice for changing this?
    posted 2015-03-21 09:17:08 -0700
  • Christian Berrigan
    commented
    this solution is not helpful because some themes (like Headliner) post the publication date prominently, and it is not desirable to have a fictitious publication date merely because I want the post to be “sticky”.
    posted 2014-11-30 14:36:22 -0800
  • Christian Berrigan
    tagged this with Not helpful
    posted 2014-11-30 14:34:35 -0800
  • Tianhe Yang
    commented
    Ben, this can be accomplished using {% subpage %} to include a partial template with the “blog” page type. For example, you might have a partial template called _sorted_by_date_blog_posts.html, where you can loop through blog posts like so:

    {% for post in page.blog.most_recent_blog_posts %}

    In the page template where you wish to include the blog posts sorted by published date, simply pull in the _sorted_by_date_blog_posts.html partial template with a subpage call:

    {% subpage “blog” with “sorted_by_date_blog_posts” %}

    I hope this helps!
    posted 2014-05-11 16:50:50 -0700
  • Ben Kempas


    Certified Architect
    Certified NationBuilder Architect
    commented
    Unfortunately, this method doesn’t change the order in site.most_recent_blog_post_pages – these may be sorted by ID rather than date?

    I’ve tried sorting them by date with this
    {% assign postsbydate = site.most_recent_blog_post_pages | sort: ‘page.published_at’ %}
    but it seems I’m overlooking something, or the sorting isn’t supported or doesn’t work for dates?
    posted 2014-04-18 10:35:09 -0700
  • Ian Patrick Hines


    Certified Architect
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    Certified NationBuilder Architect Certified NationBuilder Expert
    commented
    Philip — This process is specific to blog posts.
    posted 2013-10-29 15:19:10 -0700
  • Philip Pinckney
    commented
    Does this also work with reordering events? I added a past event to my site, but it still shows up on top. I tried changing the date both forwards and backwards with no success.
    posted 2013-10-29 09:37:49 -0700
  • robit hairman
    responded
    posted 2013-06-05 22:08:09 -0700
  • Marjorie Roswell
    commented
    Change the date of the post. They sort by reverse date.
    posted 2012-07-06 14:16:32 -0700

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