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

You can get sorting using Pelican's custom page metadata and Jinja2's built-in sort filter.

Example template:

{% for pg in PAGES|sort(attribute='sortorder') %}
    {{ pg.title }}