Hi James,

Can you please provide the code sample here so that we can review it.

BTW You can use the below code to retrieve the items from contentArea. 

        var resultList = new List<IContent>();
        var contentLoader = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentLoader>();

        foreach (ContentAreaItem contentAreaItem in currentPage.PrimaryComponentArea.FilteredItems)
        {
            if (contentAreaItem != null && contentAreaItem.ContentLink != null &&
                contentAreaItem.ContentLink != ContentReference.EmptyReference)
            {

            IContent content;
            if (contentLoader.TryGet(contentAreaItem.ContentLink, out content))
                if (content != null)
                {
                    resultList.Add(content);
                }
            }
        }

FYI - Please get the IContentLoader context using constructor parameters.

Hi Ravindra,

So these items belong to a block and you can simply get the items by:

var items = block.LinkItems.Items.GetContentItems<IContentData>();

LinkItems is the collection of ContentArea items. GetContentItems uses the content loader to call GetItems. GetItems is the out of the box Epi method which is where I guess some sorting goes on to sort Categories first and then CMS pages.

James, you are right that the "GetItems" method does not return results in the same sequence as its input.
Its results are grouped per ContentProvider. Thats why you are seeing all Commerce categories before CMS pages.

I assume you are using a "GetContentItems" extension method similar to this.

You can use a modified "GetContentItems" extension method to get results in the original order:

    public static IList<T> GetContentItems<T>(this IEnumerable<ContentAreaItem> contentAreaItems) where T : IContentData
    {
        if (contentAreaItems == null || !contentAreaItems.Any())
        {
            return null;
        }

        var contentLinks = contentAreaItems.Select(_ => _.ContentLink).ToList();

        return ContentLoader.Value
            .GetItems(contentLinks, new LoaderOptions { LanguageLoaderOption.FallbackWithMaster() })
            .OfType<T>()
            .OrderBy(x => contentLinks.IndexOf((x as IContent).ContentLink))
            .ToList();
    }

Cheers Mads! Exactly what I was looking for!

Its strange that Epi lets you re order CMS pages amongst Categories without the actual functionality to list them in that order on the front end