Custom Page Order in NavBar

[emalgorithm]

In the navigation bar, the order of the pages is defined by sorting alphabetically: {%- assign sorted_pages = site.pages -%}.
Is there an easy way to specify a different order?

[babaknasr]

checkout my workaround in following commit:
babaknasr@d900a98

I added a new tag "sort_menu" for each page using numbers and then sorted based on "sort_menu":
{% assign sorted_pages = site.pages | sort: "sort_menu" %}
by changing the value of the tag, manually you can manipulate the order of menu items.

[bchao1]

Isn't there an order tag for each page already?

[emalgorithm]

@bchao1 Do you have an example for that?

[bchao1]

Not sure which version you're using, In my case, line 39 in _includes/header.html specifies that the tabs in the navbar is sorted using the order attribute:

{%- assign sorted_pages = site.pages | sort: "order" -%}

So, you can simply add the order attribute in each markdown file in _pages to change the ordering. Example:

---
layout: page
permalink: /publications/
title: publications
order: 2
description: Brian Chao's publications.
years: [2022, 2021, 2020]
nav: true
---