[plugin] [ORPHAN] upm_date_archive: Date archive listings

Mary · 2009-01-25 13:24:20

Version 0.2.5 released

Last edited by Mary (2013-01-24 17:27:16)

ryancecilsmith · 2009-08-06 03:42:53

Hi, I’m sorry to post such an elementary question…

I’m trying to use upm_date_menu on my blog here

How do I change the class of the ul and li? Does this plugin not use ul and li?

I gave the tag a class, and defined the following in my style sheet:

.upm_menu {
        font-size: 80%;
	margin: 0 0 0 10px;
	padding: 0;
	list-style-type: none;
        color: #0ff;
}

.upm_menu ul {
	list-style-type: none;
}

.upm_menu li {
	margin: 0 10px 2px 20px;
	padding: 0;
        font-size: 0.8em;
}

Here is the actual tag in my page code:

<txp:upm_date_menu class="upm_menu" section="blog" category="homelife, japan, job, media, politics, students, webpage-work" insert_empty_months="no" month_format="%B" show_article_count="yes" />

I can get the upm_menu class (without ul or li) to work, only. The other two just have no effect.

Any tips or advice? I hope I’m being clear. Thanks very much.

Mary · 2009-08-08 13:32:12

If you view source of your page, you can see what markup the tag outputs (it can vary according to how you apply certain options), which would allow you to intelligently apply CSS.

walter976 · 2009-08-17 18:46:37

Hello Mary,

is there any attribute for the limit of the articles displayed on a page? Thanks in advance!

Mary · 2009-11-18 09:46:49

Look at the “none_found” attribute described in the plugin’s help doc. :)

Mary · 2009-11-21 00:31:47

I think we’ve got things confused.

Earlier you said that you decided to not use the upm_date_menu tag in favour of generating the links yourself. If you’re also not using the upm_date_archive tag, and using, say, the article tag instead, then you’re not using the plugin at all. Not a problem, per se, except that if you’re not actually using the plugin tags they can’t very well do anything for you. :)

In that instance, you would need to investigate using the if_data plugin someone else has written.

rathersplendid · 2010-02-11 11:09:08

I can get this plugin working perfectly with messy urls but when I switch to clean (/title) the date_archive does not work.

For the date menu my code is:

<txp:upm_date_menu id="archivemenu" insert_empty_months="no" sort="the_year desc, the_month desc" month_format="%B" show_article_count="yes" />

and for the date archive my code is:

<txp:upm_date_archive form="archive_view" mode="smart" heading_level="4" include_date="no" sort="the_year desc, the_month desc, the_date desc" />

If I use mode="full", I get the archive list (apm_date_archive) working but when I want to have a single month displayed by clicking an item on the upm_date_menu list, the same appears (2 months worth of posts)

Any ideas?

Mary · 2010-02-11 11:30:16

That’s because of how /title works, if I remember correctly. Try switching to, say, /section/title and see if it suddenly starts working again.

rathersplendid · 2010-02-11 12:07:45

Hi Mary, thanks for responding so promptly; switching to /section/title works perfectly so thanks for the help. Is there any chance that switching back to /title would make this plugin work?

On a side note, I found it extremely difficult to work out how to use this plugin, was there some documentation, apart from the plugin’s help, that I missed? I checked your site, textpattern.org and read through this entire forum thread but nowhere did it give any example uses and guides. Maybe I missed them, I don’t know, just FYI. It would be good to have it somewhere.

rathersplendid · 2010-02-11 12:22:29

I have another issue that I hope you can help me with, when a user goes to /archives I would like a list of articles from the current month, but when they click the date_menu items, I would like proper results to appear instead.

I have tried to introduce variables so that when a given url is correct, the form does one thing, to no avail. You can also see that I have an article_custom that grabs the current month’s articles.

My code is this:

<txp:variable name="archive" value='<txp:site_url />archives/' />
    <txp:if_variable name="archive" value='<txp:site_url />archives/'>
    	<txp:article_custom limit="999" wraptag="ul" break="" month='<txp:php>echo date("Y-m");</txp:php>' sort="Posted desc">
    		<txp:if_different>
    			<li class="month"><h4><txp:posted format="%B" /> <txp:posted format="%Y" /></h4></li>
    		</txp:if_different>
    		<li>
    		    <p class="title"><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></p>	
    		</li>
    	</txp:article_custom>
    <txp:else />
        <txp:upm_date_archive form="archive_view" mode="smart" heading_level="4" include_date="no" sort="the_year desc, the_month desc, the_date desc" />
    </txp:if_variable>

What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to achieve this? Many thanks

Last edited by rathersplendid (2010-02-11 12:23:40)

Mary · 2010-02-11 12:26:54

Nope, it’s a quirk of how the /title scheme works.

If I use mode=“full”, I get the archive list (apm_date_archive) working but when I want to have a single month displayed by clicking an item on the upm_date_menu list, the same appears (2 months worth of posts)

That’s because full is being used: that tells the plugin to display a list of all articles all at once. It’s really intended that the menu tag doesn’t get used when you use that mode.

When I update this plugin, I’ll make it so that you can optionally have the most recent month of articles displayed if no specific month has been requested.

rathersplendid · 2010-02-11 12:30:39

that would be awesome, thanks! I guess I’ll post my question in the How do i..? forum for now. Cheers

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