# Mixed section transparency

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/mixed-section-transparency/1652>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 17, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/mixed-section-transparency/1652 "2023-02-17T11:48:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![port19x](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/port19x/32/927_2.png) [@port19x](https://zola.discourse.group/u/port19x)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/mixed-section-transparency/1652/1 "2023-02-17T11:48:40Z")

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> **[Port19's Webpage](https://port19.xyz)**
>
> My Writings on Linux, Tech and Lifestyle

alright, so I now implemented what feels like categories through sections.  
I had to disable transparency so that page.higher and page.lower would continue working.  
Then I had to rewrite my index.html to loop over subsections, which made the template a whole lot drier, so I don’t mind.

Now would be a good time for me to restructure my landing page.  
I’d like to have just the 10 newest posts in a list, but thanks to disabled transparency (for next/previous functionality), it’s not obvious how I would do that.  
I’d also need similar logic for some orphan archive.md with it’s own short template to just include a list of all the posts (sorted by date).

How can I keep transparency off (for next/previous) while also sorting over a joined list of posts from different sections?

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**Author:** ![rye](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/rye/32/940_2.png) [@rye](https://zola.discourse.group/u/rye)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/mixed-section-transparency/1652/2 "2023-02-26T02:20:00Z")

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I just did something similar where I wanted my blog to include project logs with blog posts.

I used

```auto
{% set project_logs = get_section(path="projects/_index.md") %}
{% for page in section.pages | concat(with=project_logs.pages) %}

```

Based on this post: [Merging sections into single loop - #5 by jamiedumont](https://zola.discourse.group/t/merging-sections-into-single-loop/957/5)