Sort options for tagged lists
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Sort options for tagged lists
Feature Upgrade · World management · Created by iamthetot
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tags tagged lists sort
Currently when you insert an article list by tag, by using [tagged:tag_name], you can tell the list to be a block-type or list-type and also tell it to have a custom header. What you cannot do is tell it how to sort the list, and it will always be sorted alphabetically by the first letter of the article's title.
I, for one, would very much like the ability to tell it how to sort the list. I use the tagged lists in my world to very quickly generate master lists of characters in my world. When I make a new character's page, I can simply add the appropriate tags and they are automatically added to the master lists. Very handy! However, sorting a list of characters by their first name is not super great. This breaks up whole familes and is pretty counter-intuitive to how most people expect a list of people to be presented, which is normally sorted by last name.
My suggestion would be to add sort types to tagged list that may include: reverse alphabetical, alphabetical by last word of article title, reverse alphabetical by last word of article title, or even random.
Example use cases
As I already noted, I would use alpha by last word to sort my character master lists.
I might use reverse alpha to present a list of historical events that begin with their date so that I could have them listed as most recent first.
I might use randomly sorted lists to promote viewers to explore random articles (I would use CSS to hide nth-of-type beyond, say, 5 so the list would be 5 random articles but no more).
And I am sure the community can think of other reasons to sort their tag lists in other ways.
The Team's Response
Declined due to very low support.
Current score
17/300 Votes · +910 points
Votes Cast
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+200
by SirhcM
on 2021-04-13 22:06 -
+100
by sv316910
on 2021-04-13 20:50 -
+20
by ImoenKim
on 2021-04-13 20:11 -
+50
by Satrium
on 2021-04-13 09:58 -
+10
by sintax7
on 2021-04-12 21:20 -
+50
by Temorse
on 2021-04-12 20:38 -
+20
by The Howling Chuckaboos
on 2021-04-12 20:11 -
+20
by Toblin
on 2021-04-12 05:13 -
+50
by A Goodhearted Unicorn
on 2021-04-12 00:28 -
+20
by Mac Attack in Dixie
on 2021-04-11 16:24 -
+20
by A Lusty Devil
on 2021-04-11 12:39 -
+10
by Jkaayy
on 2021-04-11 03:29 -
+50
by Dejers
on 2021-04-10 20:49 -
-100
by mergandore
on 2021-04-10 19:55 -
+50
by redbeardcreator
on 2021-04-10 12:49The count limit could also be included in the list specification. I'd also like to see sorting by some arbitrary template field. There may need to be restrictions on that, though.
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+20
by brass_phoenix
on 2021-04-10 08:49 -
+20
by Lyraine Alei
on 2021-04-10 03:18 -
+300
by iamthetot
on 2021-04-10 02:54
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