meta: generalize meta_title into meta(title); support author, updated, date

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / ikiwiki / pagespec / sorting.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting.mdwn
index 41aa58151c20bb44ba0ee16b6e1b93eaa70cadf0..fbf598340983633616be065aa18ce5e10f508f27 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting.mdwn
@@ -5,7 +5,23 @@ orders can be specified.
 
 * `age` - List pages from the most recently created to the oldest.
 * `mtime` - List pages with the most recently modified first.
-* `title` - Order by title.
-* `title_natural` - Only available if [[!cpan Sort::Naturally]] is
-  installed. Orders by title, but numbers in the title are treated
+* `title` - Order by title (page name).
+[[!if test="enabled(sortnaturally)" then="""
+* `title_natural` - Orders by title, but numbers in the title are treated
   as such, ("1 2 9 10 20" instead of "1 10 2 20 9")
+"""]]
+[[!if test="enabled(meta)" then="""
+* `meta(title)` - Order according to the `\[[!meta title="foo" sort="bar"]]`
+  or `\[[!meta title="foo"]]` [[ikiwiki/directive]], or the page name if no
+  full title was set. `meta(author)`, `meta(date)`, `meta(updated)`, etc.
+  also work.
+"""]]
+
+In addition, you can combine several sort orders and/or reverse the order of
+sorting, with a string like `age -title` (which would sort by age, then by
+title in reverse order if two pages have the same age).
+
+Plugins can add additional sort orders, so more might be available on this
+wiki.
+
+[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]