archiving older posts and starting fresh

mrtunes · 2011-12-12 17:29:09

what would be a good workflow for cleaning up my site a little?

i want to take all my existing posts, and maintain them in an archive (i know how to build this page).

so the next step, is i’m guessing there needs to be some kind of conditional set up to say “if article id is equal to or less than…”, and once it reaches this point it will say there are no more posts and send them over to the archive page. can anyone point me in the direction for doing this?

now another option that i am considering, is wrapping the site up into a subfolder, and doing 301 redirects. then i will really have a clean slate to work with. i dont necessarily want to take it that far yet.

els · 2011-12-12 18:06:04

A simple solution would be to use <txp:older />:

<txp:variable name="olderarticles" value='<txp:older />' />
<txp:if_variable name="olderarticles" value="">
   link to your archive page
<txp:else />
   <txp:older />
</txp:if_variable>

You can do the same with <txp:prev /> for the individual article mode.

mrtunes · 2011-12-12 19:33:22

that’s great. thank you!

johnstephens · 2011-12-12 20:13:49

Els, I don’t understand the solution. It seems like the older tag would always return output if the archived articles were in the same section. Doe this solution resume that the archived articles have been switched to another section, or am I missing something?

els · 2011-12-12 22:48:16

John, yes, my suggestion is based on the assumption that the archived articles are in a separate section. Elliott, is that what you meant to do?

Last edited by els (2011-12-12 22:48:58)

maniqui · 2011-12-12 22:57:29

^{Els’ solution: I don’t get it yet.}

els · 2011-12-12 23:02:36

maniqui wrote:

^{Els’ solution: I don’t get it yet.}

If there are no older articles in a section, <txp:older /> won’t display anything, right? But if two very experienced Txp users are not ‘getting’ it, chances are that I am overlooking something ;) Just tell me if I am!

maniqui · 2011-12-12 23:07:28

Ah, ok, now I get it.

This snippet is to be used in some section (not the other one where the articles has been archived) and will be “triggered” after reaching the last page (on article list context) of articles for this new section. At that point, it will show a link to the other section.

^Right?

els · 2011-12-12 23:11:52

maniqui wrote:

^Right?

^{Right :)}

johnstephens · 2011-12-12 23:14:43

I got it after you confirmed that the archived articles were cordoned off in their own section. I didn’t gather that from the original post, but it makes perfect sense!

els · 2011-12-12 23:23:22

johnstephens wrote:

I didn’t gather that from the original post

It doesn’t say so, I just jumped to conclusions ;) So my ‘solution’ may be useless, if Elliott didn’t mean it that way.

mrtunes · 2011-12-13 01:31:28

I think Els understood my original question. The only problem is I haven’t tried it yet, but it seems to fit the bill for what I’m doing. I will report back

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