Custom order for Collection Items

At the moment there is little possibility to easily achieve custom ordering of items of a collection.

Outside in the CMS world—and I'm taking Drupal as an example—custom ordering is quite always achieved the same way: there is a custom "order" field, that is updated anytime the order of items is manually changed in a backend section. Editors will manually reorder items by dragging them up and down the list, and the value of the order field is updated after each drag. In the template, the list is set to be sorted depending on this order field.

A very popular module to do this on Drupal can be seen here: https://www.drupal.org/project/nodeorder

A list and comparisons of the ordering modules can be seen here: https://www.drupal.org/node/398508

  • Vincent Bidaux
  • Jan 19 2017
CMS
  • David Bernier commented
    03 Jul 18:41

    Let's go Webflow!

  • Kevin Brenkman commented
    09 May 19:32

    Pleaseeeee

  • Manuel Zechner commented
    31 Jan 20:24

    Every single client of mine asks for this. Everyone. They don't care for logic, for users, or apps, they literally just want to reorder their stuff. I had to rebuild whole websites with other tools because this is such an essential feature.

  • Matt Sims commented
    August 31, 2023 12:07

    Good news! Thanks to Webflow's latest app updates, this is finally available within the Webflow Designer via the Flow Guys Toolkit app. Check it out...

    https://webflow.com/apps/detail/toolkit

  • Masturah Maidin commented
    July 21, 2023 17:22

    I can't believe I tried looking for a solution and it took me to a ticket dated over 6 years ago, and still open... :|

  • SketchzLab commented
    July 18, 2023 05:42

    This is pretty much a needed feature. Looking at this, it seems has been 6 years and this is still not resolved yet. Hopefully they will do something about it.

    Creating a numbering field is kinda irritating especially when the CMS items are alot. Everytime when the items need to be rearranged, we're basically needed to update every single of the CMS item. 😵‍💫

    WEBFLOW~! Please work on this.

  • Himanshu Chawla commented
    January 08, 2023 17:38

    Hi everyone, as Webflow team hasn't launched an official solution for this issue, we have built a Webflow Collection Sorter Chrome extension! With this extension, you can easily and quickly rearrange the order of your CMS collection items in Webflow using a simple drag and drop interface. Using the extension is pretty simple:

    - Install the extension
    - Add a "Sort Order" number field
    - Use the Sort button to launch the drag-and-drop interface to reorder the collection items.

    Extension link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webflow-collection-reorde/dgfmdefiehjbcnocbmjepgeichkociih/

  • Sébastien Plisson commented
    January 04, 2023 12:45

    I just created a new post about this feature but not only. I'm talking about being able to create sections for the designer thatn clients can add, remove or reorder in the editor

    https://wishlist.webflow.com/ideas/WEBFLOW-I-5781

  • Steven Maas commented
    November 21, 2022 10:00

    Bump, we need this!

  • Jeremy commented
    November 09, 2022 20:13

    Still very much needed!

  • Petra Ouhrabkova commented
    August 28, 2022 13:51

    Please, please, please. We use CMS with practically every single business and this would be a huge time saver. Thank you!

  • Cesar Lopez commented
    August 17, 2022 10:47

    I decided to add this comment because it's been over a month since someone else's plea and I just built another FAQ with only 12 questions and it's still a pain to customize the order of the list by using a number field. Thus I was reminded how desperately there needs to be an option to to customize the order of collection items. A manual drag-and-drop option would be ideal for most clients.

  • Rafael Bergstrom commented
    July 13, 2022 23:40

    Please make this happen!!!! We're a small nonprofit and this has been a really big hinderance for efficiency in website edits for us.

  • Jonas Cederholm commented
    July 13, 2022 19:42

    I can't believe this is still on the wishlist 5 years later. It really is a bad joke at this point. Sort by manually added numbers on each individual cms item you say? Yeah clients really love doing that. Give me a break ...

  • Michael Hoang commented
    June 02, 2022 16:33

    Any updates on this?! So many of our clients are not enjoying the experience of sorting by numbers, it get's too complicated and messy when managing CMS items.

    Can we get going with this drag funcationality please!

  • Tyler Griffin commented
    May 31, 2022 21:36

    What has been holding this up for 5 years?


    Make a new field type: 'Order/Position'


    It does not have to highjack the current 'Sort By' functionality, users can simply set 'Sort By' => 'Order/Position'


    Every time an item gets an updated value in the 'Order/Position' field, the rest of the items in the table get scanned and updated as needed


    If it's it not possible to updates all other items in the table automatically, there is still a solution using decimals instead of integers. When you drag an item between 2 other items, check the 'Order/Position' values of the other 2 items and update the 'Order/Position' of the dragged item to whatever decimal place value is needed to get in between the other 2. It's hacky, but this is basically what we have to do currently through a manually created field and I don't see why this wouldn't work for a draggable sort tool.


  • David commented
    May 05, 2022 16:18

    This comes up on most projects I work on, I can't believe this still isn't a thing.

  • Alistair Williams commented
    May 05, 2022 13:30

    Super essential – pls add.

  • Freedom Doran commented
    May 02, 2022 17:26

    Oh my god guys its not that hard of a feature to add please hurry up, its literally a basic feature even on Wix lol

  • Web LoveWell commented
    April 26, 2022 20:29

    Seriously guy.....hurry the freak up with this option.

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