Sorting content items is a very useful feature for content authors when they have to work with a number of items in a common parent. Sitecore provides some out-of-the-box sorting rules such as Created By, Display Name, Logical, Reverse, Updated, and others.
However, sometimes content authors might need a custom rule of sorting. For example, they created a news items with the dd-MM-yyyy format, so content authors getting an invalid order of news items by applying out-of-the-box rules. In this recipe, you will learn how to create a custom sorting rule to sort by the News Date field.
Create some news items under the 2015 folder, as shown on the left-hand side of the following image. These should have the News Date field with the DateTime field type. Now, we will achieve a sort order of the content items shown on the right-hand side of the image:
