ACJ’s The Daily Archives

Posted: June 9 2004

Up to this day, weblog entries were being archived both monthly as individually. The monthly pages provide only the titles of the entries, linking to the individual archives. The individual archives show a entry in its entire, plus all its comments and trackbacks, and a comment form (if allowed for that specific entry).

This works perfectly fine, but it didn't cover all my needs. There were three problems in particular:

When I'd refer to a previous day in an entry, I'd link to a specific entry that was made on that day. That works, but is not as correct as it would be to link to a daily page—an individual entry seems too specific.
There was no way to navigate one folder up from an individual archive page. There was (and still is—I'll be working on that) no active navigation for it, and brute forcing it by taking off the last part of the URL caused a 403.
Once an entry is no longer on the weblog index page (only the latest 9 are), there is no way to only see the non-extended entry anywhere. This is not really a big problem, but one nonetheless.

Today I decided there was really no reason to not have daily archives, and thus I got into the templates and configuration settings of my CMS. I was literally done within a minute. I just took the template of the weblog index; stripped some things I didn't need; added an archive type to the configuration; and that was about it. I rebuild the site and here we are. (Gotta love Movable Type.)

I'm planning on making some changes, though. I want to add an (automated) 'blogroll again, change the titles of the pages (they're all called ACJ's Weblog now), and perhaps add the bookmarks I made that day (I've been loging these locally—adding them to my weblog always seemed like a nice idea to me).

Google, you've got some pages to index!

ACJ

Comments

4 comments so far.

1/4

Gotta love MT

sigh I'm missing it right now. If I can't get things to work again - I'm going back.

Posted by: Libby on June 9, 2004, at 09:32

2/4

Hehe, I'm actually considering changing to WordPress myself. I already have a copy up and running, but I won't do anything with it before I—like you said—get everything to work.

Posted by: ACJ on June 9, 2004, at 14:11

3/4

When (if?) I ever get serious about my weblog again, I think I'm going to give Textpattern a go.

Posted by: James on June 9, 2004, at 19:01

4/4

I loved Wordpress until I upgraded the version and ended up stuck in a pre-alpha version. (I shouldn't be allowed to update my site at 4am.. only bad things can happen! :) ) I'm stuck because no one knows what "might happen" if I go back to the previous one. So things aren't exactly stable enough for me to do much right now.

I never installed textpattern - but a friend did.. and let me check it out. I liked the way it looked. I didn't get to spend much time on it though.

Posted by: Libby on June 9, 2004, at 21:16