archive won't display posts in reverse order (most recent first)

[taunsquared]

• This is a question about using the theme.
• This is a feature request.
• I have updated all gems with bundle update.
• I have tested locally with bundle exec jekyll build.
• I believe this to be a bug with the theme --- not Jekyll, GitHub Pages or one of the bundled plugins.

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Environment informations

• Minimal Mistakes version: forked online (v4.4.1)
• github-pages or jekyll gem version: 'github-pages', I'm doing everything through the browser
• Operating system: Microsoft 10

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Expected behavior

I'm trying to list posts in reverse order, so that the most recent post shows up first.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Repository for my website is here: https://github.com/taunsquared/taunsquared.github.io

The two pages I'm trying to get to list posts are
/_pages/brainplay.md
and
/_pages/scribbles.md

I took the code directly from Minimal Mistakes' documentation, and I see that it's working correctly on the demo site, so I'm wondering why mine doesn't do the same?

Sorry if this is super obvious, I checked past issues and no one seems to have had this problem before...

[mmistakes]

You may want to ask this question on https://talk.jekyllrb.com/ as it's not a theme specific one. I believe your issue is your trying to list collection documents (_brainplay and _scribbles) in reverse cron but they don't have any concept of date like _posts do.

To do that I believe you'd have to add a date field to their YAML front matter and then sort on that in your for loops.

[taunsquared]

Interesting - where is the date field added on the demo site? I don't see it in the YAML front matter of the posts.

The defaults for _scribbles and _brainplay were copied from _posts, so shouldn't they work the same way?

[mmistakes]

The date field isn't add to the demo site. That's because what you're seeing there are "posts"... which automatically get date populated by their filename.

You're trying to do that with "collections", which don't share that behavior. Instead I believe they are sorted alphabetically by default. I'd inquire in the Jekyll forum or Stackoverflow as it's a core Jekyll behavior and not theme related.

[taunsquared]

ok, I see now - so re-naming _scribbles to _post got the reverse chrono listing to work, but now the "year" headers won't render properly in the webpage. Is this also a Jekyll behaviour?

[mmistakes]

That's because you're using Markdown and it thinks the indented <h2> line should be a "code block", which isn't rendering it as HTML.

Either rename the file to .html instead or collapse the indents to something like this:

{% capture written_year %}'None'{% endcapture %}
{% for post in site.posts %}
{% capture year %}{{ post.date | date: '%Y' }}{% endcapture %}
{% if year != written_year %}
<h2 id="{{ year | slugify }}" class="archive__subtitle">{{ year }}</h2>
{% capture written_year %}{{ year }}{% endcapture %}
{% endif %}
{% include archive-single.html %}
{% endfor %}

[taunsquared]

Amazing! Thanks for the super fast and helpful replies!