Categories Order

While Pelican allows for sorting articles or pages, the categories can only be sorted in alphabetic order (or reverse). This plugin allows for an abritary order.

Why would I need it?

If cateogries appear in menu or sidebar, one might want a different order than alphabetic order. E.g., I want alway the categorys "misc" to be the last.

Installation

Copy the pelican_categories_order folder to a place your PLUGIN_PATHS. Next, add pelican_categories_order to the PLUGIN list, e.g.:

PLUGINS = [' pelican_categories_order']

Configuration

Add a dictionary CATEGORIES_ORDER to your pelicanconf.py in the following way:

CATEGORIES_ORDER = {
	'category b': 10,
	'category a': 20,
	'misc':       999,
	}

A category that does not exist in CATEGORIES_ORDER will be ordered with the order value 100.