Feature

Collections

Data you define in the admin, such as a reading list, staff or venues, with its own fields, an item page for each entry and lists you place anywhere. No code and no deploy.

Read the docsOpen in the admin

Things to try

Open an item page

Click any book below. One template renders every item’s page at /reading-list/<slug>.

Compare the layouts

The same books as a slider, a grid and a list. Only the Iterator block’s settings differ.

Filter and sort

A second page filters and sorts the same data: upcoming meetings, date ranges, a choice field and a reading day split into three sittings.

Filtering demos

Featured, as a slider

An Iterator block set to the Reading list collection and filtered to the books of the month, two to a view.

  • Cover of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

    Jane Eyre

    An orphan becomes a governess and refuses to be anyone’s lesser in a house full of secrets.

  • Cover of Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

    Hamnet

    A family in Stratford loses a child, and a famous play grows out of the grief.

  • Cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot

    Middlemarch

    A whole provincial town, its marriages and its ambitions, followed over a few busy years.

All the books, as a grid

Sorted by the year each book was first published, newest first. The whole card links to the item’s page.

  • Cover of Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

    Hamnet

    By Maggie O’Farrell

    We meet

    First published 2020

  • Cover of Normal People by Sally Rooney

    Normal People

    By Sally Rooney

    We meet

    First published 2018

  • Cover of H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

    H is for Hawk

    By Helen Macdonald

    We meet

    First published 2014

  • Cover of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

    Wolf Hall

    By Hilary Mantel

    We meet

    First published 2009

  • Cover of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

    The Remains of the Day

    By Kazuo Ishiguro

    We meet

    First published 1989

  • Cover of Beloved by Toni Morrison

    Beloved

    By Toni Morrison

    We meet

    First published 1987

  • Cover of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

    The Left Hand of Darkness

    By Ursula K. Le Guin

    We meet

    First published 1969

  • Cover of Dune by Frank Herbert

    Dune

    By Frank Herbert

    We meet

    First published 1965

  • Cover of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    By Agatha Christie

    We meet

    First published 1926

  • Cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot

    Middlemarch

    By George Eliot

    We meet

    First published 1871

  • Cover of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

    Jane Eyre

    By Charlotte Brontë

    We meet

    First published 1847

  • Cover of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

    Pride and Prejudice

    By Jane Austen

    We meet

    First published 1813

As a list

The meetings still to come, laid out as rows, with a Read more link bound to the item’s page.

Nothing to show yet.

Filtering and sorting

Filters and sorts are settings on the Iterator, per field type: yes/no, choices, numbers, date ranges and times of day.

Filtering and sorting demos
The collection in the admin

How this page is built

  1. Open Collections and make a new one: a name and a path, with item pages on.
  2. Add its Fields: text, images, links, numbers, dates, choices or yes/no.
  3. Add items on the Items tab, and drag them into the order you want.
  4. On a page, place an Iterator, choose the collection, a layout, a filter and a sort.
  5. Build one item from ordinary blocks and use Connect to item to bind each to a field.
  6. Edit the collection’s item template under Content → Templates to style every item page.
The Collections list in the adminA collection in the admin, with its fields and itemsThe form for one item of a collection in the admin
Read the docs chapter