How to order categories in key/value for loop?

Question

This is what I'm trying to accomplish:

• All categories displayed on one page, with entries returned from each.
• Only six entries shown in each category.
• Categories need to be in a specific order.

I've got the first two points working, but can't figure out how to change the order of the categories. Am I going about this the wrong way?

{% set entries = craft.entries.section('entrySection').find() %}

{% for category, catEntries in entries | group('categoryField.first().title') %}

    {% for entry in catEntries|slice(0,6) %}

    {% endfor %}

{% endfor %}

Answer 1

Using the group filter you will always end up with the sort order of your entries. So you would need to sort the entries by your categories field, but this probably doesn't work.

But you can do the following:

{# Get the categories related to my "entrySection" entries in custom order #}
{% set entries = craft.entries.section('entrySection') %}
{% set relatedCats = craft.categories.relatedTo(entries).order('customCatField desc') %}

{# Loop the categories #}
{% for category in relatedCats %}

    {# Get and loop through the 6 most recent entries related to this cat #}
    {% set relatedEntries = craft.entries.relatedTo(category).limit('6') %}
    {% for entry in relatedEntries %}
        ...
    {% endfor %}

{% endfor %}