Chronological article listing

[GiovanH]

• I have searched the issues (including closed ones) and believe that this is not a duplicate.
• I have searched the documentation and believe that my question is not covered.
• I am willing to lend a hand to help implement this feature.

Feature Request

I would like to add index pages (tags, categories, all) that show posts in chronological order, instead of the default latest-first sort. ARTICLE_ORDER_BY is almost perfect for this, but it replaces the entire index, forcing you to choose one and only one sort order. What I want to do is add functionality without replacing any.

On tumblr, you can can browse a blog's tag in either order: chronological order or latest-first. The URL schemes look like this:

Default: https://{blog}.tumblr.com/tagged/{tag}/page/{i}
Chrono: https://{blog}.tumblr.com/tagged/{tag}/chrono/page/{i}

I've been trying to hack together a way to reproduce this without forking pelican, and have had no luck. This can't be done with pure template language (since pagination happens in pelican) and I haven't figured out a way to make an additional generator that's correct to the pelican ArticlesGenerator without duplicating code.

Essentially, this would just be generating index pages (tags, categories, etc) twice, once with a different order_by setting.

This could be an optional feature enabled with a setting. This shouldn't interfere with feed generation, which would respect ARTICLE_ORDER_BY.

[GiovanH]

It's definitely possible that this can be done with a pelican extension in a way that I'm not seeing. If that's the case and writing a generator for this is simple, this probably doesn't need to go in the main codebase.

[GiovanH]

Disregard, I've found a way to do this with standard extensions.

[virtadpt]

https://xkcd.com/979/

[GiovanH]

https://xkcd.com/979/

Once I pack together a standard extension that does this I'll link it here! Heck, this is the sort of thing that it might sense to merge into pelican one day, once it exists.

[GiovanH]

Added an implementation at https://github.com/GiovanH/peliplugins/blob/master/chrono.py, see readme for details!

[virtadpt]

Nice!