{% comment %} This file enables manual episode ordering until GitHub Pages switches to Jekyll that supports it without any major hackery. Note, some logic will be required even when this transition happens but it won't be as involved as what we have to do in this file. To order lesson episodes or extras manually (instead of the default alpha-numerical order), create array variables 'episode_order' and 'extras_order' in `_config.yml` like so: episode_order: - episodeA - episodeB extras_order: - extraA - extraB Note that "Reference" page is currently always added to "Extras" as the first item. The main outcomes of the code in this file are: - 'lesson_episodes' variable that replaces 'site.episodes' variable when manual episode order is defined. - 'lesson_extras' variable that replaces 'site.extras' variable when manual ordering of files in '_extras' is used - 'previous_episode' and 'next_episode' objects that replace 'page.previous' and 'page.next' variables, correspondingly, and that have such properties as 'url' and 'title' and that are used in 'episode_navbar.html'. When episode order is specified manually, the 'lesson_episodes' variable contains a list of episode names ("slugs", to be precise; "slug" is the episode name without '.md'). Therefore, when we iterate over 'lesson_episodes' (in syllabus.html and navbar.html) , we have to check whether we use manual episode ordering and, if so, find the corresponding episode object. This is what we do with the following code in every loop over 'lesson_episodes': {% if site.episode_order %} {% assign episode = site.episodes | where: "slug", lesson_episode | first %} {% else %} {% assign episode = lesson_episode %} {% endif %} {% endcomment %} {% comment %} Manual ordering of Episodes begins here {% endcomment %} {% if site.episode_order %} {% assign lesson_episodes = site.episode_order %} {% else %} {% assign lesson_episodes = site.episodes %} {% endif %} {% comment %} If 'episode_order' is defined, we need to determine - previous episode object ('previous_episode') - and next episode object ('next_episode') {% endcomment %} {% if site.episode_order %} {% for lesson_episode in lesson_episodes %} {% comment %} We iterate over the specified lesson episodes using a 'for' loop because we can use 'forloop.first', 'forloop.last', and 'forloop.index0'. {% endcomment %} {% unless lesson_episode == page.slug %} {% continue %} {% endunless %} {% if forloop.first %} {% assign previous_episode = nil %} {% else %} {% assign p_idx = forloop.index0 | minus: 1 %} {% assign p_name = lesson_episodes[p_idx] %} {% assign previous_episode = site.episodes | where: "slug", p_name | first %} {% endif %} {% if forloop.last == true %} {% assign next_episode = nil %} {% else %} {% assign n_idx = forloop.index0 | plus: 1 %} {% assign n_name = lesson_episodes[n_idx] %} {% assign next_episode = site.episodes | where: "slug", n_name | first %} {% endif %} {% endfor %} {% else %} {% assign previous_episode = page.previous %} {% assign next_episode = page.next %} {% endif %} {% comment %} Manual ordering of Extras begins here {% endcomment %} {% if site.extras_order %} {% assign lesson_extras = site.extras_order %} {% else %} {% assign lesson_extras = site.extras %} {% endif %} {% comment %} We do not need to determine "previous" or "next" extra. {% endcomment %}