How can I control the order of pages from within a pelican article category?

Question

I am using pelican jinja2 templates in order to generate a navigation menu based on the category and I need a way to control the order of the pages, or at least a trick to a

Answer 1

To workaround the problem, you can disable categories and pages from being displayed automatically and set the menuitems manually in the configuration:

DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU = False
DISPLAY_PAGES_ON_MENU = False

MENUITEMS = (
    ('Home', '/'),
    ('Archives', '/archives.html'),
    ('Tags', '/tags.html'),
    ('Category1', 'category/category1.html'),
    ('Category2', 'category/category2.html'),
)