experiences: sort by end date

[ghost]

I love the experiences section! I think it would help to have experiences sorted by end date rather than start date though, just as in a standard resume/CV. I tried editing layouts>partials>widgets>experiences.html myself and it didn't like what I was doing.

[gcushen]

LinkedIn sorts experience by start date. Academic is consistent with LinkedIn's approach.

Feel free to reach out on the support forum for support customizing widgets.

[anirbanbasu]

There are situations such as sabbaticals where an experience X starts after an experience Y but finishes before the date_end of Y. To offer more flexibility, how about the following?

1. Parameterize the sorting order, including a manual_sort option.
2. If the manual_sort option is chosen, the sorting order will be the order in which the experiences are written in Markdown.
3. Display nested experiences, although this may look ugly depending on the amount of text and the nesting level.

[nheeren]

I would also like to suggest to either allow sorting manually or prioritise ongoing experiences. For instance, I have a little side-kick that I started many years ago. It is completely buried in the list although it is still ongoing and relevant. Keep up the great work!

[nheeren]

LinkedIn sorts experience by start date. Academic is consistent with LinkedIn's approach.

LinkedIn does the same thing by the way...

[gcushen]

@nheeren ordering by multiple variables would be the ideal solution however Hugo only has very basic support for it. Unfortunately, I don't believe that Hugo's ByParam would work in this context unless someone requests Hugo team to improve that functionality.

[nheeren]

@gcushen I appreciate the feedback! Sorting by end date (first) might already do the trick. Would something like this work? (Sorry still learning how Hugo works.)

{{ range ($.Site.RegularPages.ByParam "enddate").ByParam "startdate" }}

[kristianeschenburg]

Has these been worked on recently? I'm interested in sorting my experience by end date (for example, I'm a graduate student -- I want my graduate student experience to be the top-most in my list).

[nheeren]

Newer issue discussing this: #1761