Blogger annual archive?

July 19, 2005 7:33 AM

I've got a website which is generated by Blogger, featuring articles I've written. My problem is that it seems that Blogger's maximum archive period is a month. As I only write 1 or 2 (or sometimes 0) things per month that I want to put up, the monthly archive doesn't really work; I really need an annual archive thing. Can anyone suggest a way that I can get round this? Do any other blogging services support this? I'd hate to have to investigate the murky world of Movable Type, but I'd rather do that than leave things as they are at the moment.

Oh, and the site is here. Thanks...

posted by rhodri to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

That is because you are using Blogger as a host. If you have your own website, and host it on either your own server or a commercial one, then you can archive your blogs on your site. Blogger is set up to do that and has instructions for setting up the archive folder on your host server. That way they will always be available so long as your hosted site is up. Remember to periodically download your site (with the archives) for backup.
posted by RMALCOLM at 8:11 AM on July 19, 2005

If there are so few posts, and you want to keep all on the main page too, then just go to the settings and have No archives.

The main use of archives is to cluster a large number of posts together and sort by date.

Since you post less, you can manually create Jan-Jun, Jun-Dec links on the template sidebar and cluster these post links there and get rid of the default archives. Or have no archives at all as all your posts are accessible from the main home page.

If you decide later to move some posts over to another page, you can manually add a Previous / Next link. That would not be a problem with few posts.

e.g. I saw this lasik blogger site - only few posts, no archive and arranged more like a website.
posted by webmeta at 8:16 AM on July 19, 2005

You could try TypePad, which is hosted like Blogger and can import your Blogger entries, and wouldn't require any software setup. (It's the same engine as Movable Type.) That lets you organize your essays into categories, and those archives can cross back multiple years if necessary.

Disclaimer: I work for Six Apart, which makes Movable Type and TypePad.
posted by anildash at 2:07 AM on July 21, 2005