Answers.Body: <p>You're on the right track with merging arrays of entry IDs. And to keep the sort order with your new <code>craft.entries</code> call there's in fact a method for that: <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/templating/craft.entries" rel="nofollow"><code>fixedOrder(true)</code></a>.</p>
  
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Body: <p>What I'm trying to accomplish is looping through a collection of entries and have them display (<em>with pagination</em>) in the following order:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>entries tagged as <strong>Featured</strong> in alphabetical (title) order</li>
  <li>entries tagged as <strong>New</strong> in alphabetical (title) order</li>
  <li>all remaining entries in alphabetical (title) order</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>The following worked:</p>
  
  <pre><code>craft.entries({ order: 'featuredLightswitchField desc, title asc' })
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However it fails to work if you try to use two lightswitch fields (e.g. featured and new) in addition to the title ordering, and I'd prefer to keep things tag-based instead of needing to add lightswitch fields.</p>
  
  <p>I also attempted at creating a custom array of entry IDs in the proper order and passing it to <code>craft.entries.id()</code>, however I can't find a way of keeping the entries in the order of the array passed to <code>craft.entries.id()</code>.</p>
  
  <pre><code>craft.entries({ id: [3, 1, 2] })
  // can't find a way to keep entries in [3, 1, 2] order.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If there was a way to order the entries based off the <code>id</code> array that would solve the problem, unless there's a better solution.</p>
  
  <p>Can provide additional information if my explanation is insufficient.</p>
  
Tags: <entries><tags><ordering>
Title: Display entries tagged with specific tag(s) before other entries
ThreadText: # Display entries tagged with specific tag(s) before other entries
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-04-01)
  
  What I'm trying to accomplish is looping through a collection of entries and have them display (*with pagination*) in the following order:
  
  * entries tagged as **Featured** in alphabetical (title) order
  * entries tagged as **New** in alphabetical (title) order
  * all remaining entries in alphabetical (title) order
  
  The following worked:
  
  ```
  craft.entries({ order: 'featuredLightswitchField desc, title asc' })
  
  ```
  
  However it fails to work if you try to use two lightswitch fields (e.g. featured and new) in addition to the title ordering, and I'd prefer to keep things tag-based instead of needing to add lightswitch fields.
  
  I also attempted at creating a custom array of entry IDs in the proper order and passing it to `craft.entries.id()`, however I can't find a way of keeping the entries in the order of the array passed to `craft.entries.id()`.
  
  ```
  craft.entries({ id: [3, 1, 2] })
  // can't find a way to keep entries in [3, 1, 2] order.
  
  ```
  
  If there was a way to order the entries based off the `id` array that would solve the problem, unless there's a better solution.
  
  Can provide additional information if my explanation is insufficient.
  
  **Tags:** entries, tags, ordering
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-04-02. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  You're on the right track with merging arrays of entry IDs. And to keep the sort order with your new `craft.entries` call there's in fact a method for that: [`fixedOrder(true)`](http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/templating/craft.entries).
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Not sure how I missed that, exactly what I needed. Thanks!  
  
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