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Archive: Which plugin should I use?
I know there are a lot of plugins out there to use for an archive, but I don’t know which one I should use for the approach I want:
On the indexpage of my “blog”-section, I want a list that displays a list of months since the beginning of my blog.
This would look like this:
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
When I click on one of these months, I would like a page like you get when you click on a category.
Any options?
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#2 2007-12-27 16:17:31
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Re: Archive: Which plugin should I use?
Or you can experiment and do it without plugins
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Re: Archive: Which plugin should I use?
colak wrote:
Or you can experiment and do it without plugins
Well, I’ve used this technique before, but now I need a page where I can display all the articles posted in a certain month…
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Re: Archive: Which plugin should I use?
Well, I’ve used this technique before, but now I need a page where I can display all the articles posted in a certain month…
Haven’t you noticed that both txp:article and txp:article_custom suport this?
In example: http://www.mydomain.com/blog/2007/12 would show only posts in this month…
To make this as changeful list why not make the links at sitebar to do something like:
In template:
<ul>
<txp:article_custom sort="Posted DESC" limit="9999" form="my-month-links" section="blog" />
</ul>In article form called my-month-links:
<txp:if_different><a href="<txp:site_url />blog/<txp:posted format="%Y/%m" />"><txp:posted format="%B %Y" /></a></txp:if_different>Cheers!
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Re: Archive: Which plugin should I use?
@Gocom
Yes, that looks nice and simple, but I’m using /section/title for permanent links, and would rather not change this…
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Re: Archive: Which plugin should I use?
Yes, that looks nice and simple, but I’m using /section/title for permanent links, and would rather not change this…
Yeah, that thing. But you could use a little php, as I did with my blog:
Monthly link: http://www.mydomain.com/blog/?y=2007&m=12
And the code to optain the list:
<txp:php>
if(gps('y') && gps('m')) {
echo article_custom(array(
'sort' => 'Posted desc',
'limit' => '9999',
'month' => (gps('y') && gps('m')) ? gps('y').'-'.gps('m') : '',
'form' => 'default',
'section' => section(),
));
}
</txp:php>Used in example at http://www.rahinaa.biz/lehti/?vuosi=2007&kuukausi=12 (changed the gps-function names and added little extra code)
Cheers!
Last edited by Gocom (2007-12-27 17:25:17)
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Re: Archive: Which plugin should I use?
@Gocom: I appreciate the effort you’re doing here! But the main reason I learned Textpattern, is that I can’t write a single line of php or any other programming language…
I’m embarrassed to ask, but is it possible to write a short how-to? Sorry…
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#9 2007-12-27 23:39:17
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Re: Archive: Which plugin should I use?
maxvoltar wrote:
@Gocom: I appreciate the effort you’re doing here! But the main reason I learned Textpattern, is that I can’t write a single line of php or any other programming language…
Neither can most of us :) Why don’t you go for one of the plugins mentioned? I’m sure rss_suparchive can do it without a problem.
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Re: Archive: Which plugin should I use?
Els wrote:
Neither can most of us :) Why don’t you go for one of the plugins mentioned? I’m sure rss_suparchive can do it without a problem.
I’ll try wrapping my head around it once more :-)
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#11 2007-12-28 00:45:07
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Re: Archive: Which plugin should I use?
Gocom
Wow, that’s simple but brilliant, thank you!
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Re: Archive: Which plugin should I use?
maxvoltar wrote:
On the indexpage of my “blog”-section, I want a list that displays a list of months since the beginning of my blog.
This would look like this:
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
Hi, I’m really new to textpattern and trying to do the same thing. So far I’m quite impressed — much faster than MT, much easier than WP :)
colak wrote:
Or you can experiment and do it without plugins
Not wanting to jump into plugins too soon, I tried the above technique (Michael’s take at #4), and I’m obviously doing something wrong, because nothing is showing up.
Following instructions, I first created an article form “monthly_menu” with the following code:
<li><a href=”<txp:siteurl />archives/<txp:posted format=”#a%m%y” />”><txp:posted format=”%B %Y” /></a></li>
Then, I added this code in a misc form “colophon”:
<div class="archive">
<h4>archives</h4>
<ul>
<txp:article_custom limit=“99999” form=“monthly_menu” />
</ul>
</div>
“colophon” was then called into the “default” page template:
<txp:output_form form="colophon" />
However, “monthly_menu” does not show up. The HTML output I get is:
<div class="archive">
<h4>archives</h4>
<ul>
</ul>
</div>
I must be missing something very obvious here. I’d appreciate if someone could point it out, thanks in advance :)
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