Over at daily.baty.net, I’ve been trying to wrangle Eleventy into showing the posts I want on the home page, in the order I want them. I’ve completely failed so far and it’s very frustrating. I don’t think this is at all the fault of Eleventy. I’m just really slow to pick up new things.
I have two tag-based “collections” in Eleventy: Journal and Post. I’ve always only shown “collections.journal” on the home page but I wanted to include regular blog posts, too. Do you think I can figure out how to do that? Nope. The closest I’ve come is to create a custom collection like so:
eleventyConfig.addCollection("myHomeCollection", function(collectionApi) {
const journals = collectionApi.getFilteredByTags("journal");
const posts = collectionApi.getFilteredByTags("post");
return allHomePosts = [...journals,...posts];
});This gets me the correct set of posts, but they’re sorted first by tag and then by date, so it’s unusable on the home page. I want reverse-chronological over the entire array but I’ve no idea how to do that. I’m so dense.
In the template, I use the reverse filter, {% for post in postslist | reverse %}, but no joy. What the heck am I doing wrong here?
