Archive#81
It would be nice to have a page with a simple overview of yearly and monthly archives. Doesn’t need to be anything fancy, kottkte.org is a good reference.
I was about to post a request for pagination, but someone already did. After posting the above archive request, it struck me that an archives feature could work as an alternative to pagination: “Visit the archives for older entres”.
What may be a good solution in the interrim is to change the blog link to archive. Then create a new page called, say, [Posts](/posts/). On the Posts page you put all your recent links (or the ones you’re the most proud of), and then Archive is the current bloglist with all your posts.
(Apologies for necrothread).
I’ve just finished setting this up with collapsible sections for each month using some simple html and adding a month tag to each post. My new archive page simply contains this code block for each month:
<details>
<summary>December</summary>
{{posts|tag:”dec24”}}
</details>
I’ve also set up my new post template to automatically include the month tag, so all I need to do is remember to update it each month. You can see it in action here: https://chrisreads.bearblog.dev/2024-archive/
I haven’t yet decided whether I’ll make a new page for each year or simply include them all on the same page. Obviously it would be preferable for this to be built-in functionality, but setting this up was a matter of a few minutes and I think it does the job quite nicely.