Hi,
I've seen some MT sites where instead of having all entries saved under one folder (e.g. /archives) and each entry has it's unique ID number as the filename (e.g. 000001.php) they've somehow customized MT to save each entry into a different folder according to date (e.g. /2002/12/) and the filename it uses is the first few words of the entry's title. For example, if the entry's title was "Where Are You" it would save the file as "where_are_y.html" or something like that.
Basically, the archiving system MT uses at SixApart.com
How did they do that? I would love to archive my entries in that manner and do away with all references to an unique ID number.
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This is done using "Archive File Template". See the manual, they have what you want as the example 
Go to blog configuration and then to Archiving. I use the following code in the Archive File Template area, but it of course can be customized to your liking:
That gives me the following for my archives:
individual/2002/02/titleofmypost.html
monthly/2002/02.html
category/nameofmycategory.html
I hope this is what you were asking, otherwise, please specify..
CODE
individual/<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m/"$><$MTEntryID pad="1"$>-<$MTEntryTitle dirify="1"$>.html
monthly/<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%B.html"$>
category/<$MTArchiveCategory dirify="1"$>.html
monthly/<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%B.html"$>
category/<$MTArchiveCategory dirify="1"$>.html
That gives me the following for my archives:
individual/2002/02/titleofmypost.html
monthly/2002/02.html
category/nameofmycategory.html
I hope this is what you were asking, otherwise, please specify..
This looks quite nice… but?
When I change to this form of archiving. Does MT just create new files in that archive form, ore do MT clean up after the old archive method? (so I don’t have old archives hanging around in my server).
And is there any other catch with changing the archive to this?
Anyway… I’m properly just being paranoid about screwing the whole archive up. ;)
When I change to this form of archiving. Does MT just create new files in that archive form, ore do MT clean up after the old archive method? (so I don’t have old archives hanging around in my server).
And is there any other catch with changing the archive to this?
Anyway… I’m properly just being paranoid about screwing the whole archive up. ;)
you need to clean up behind youself. All the old archives are still there.
When I went to this method of archiving, I deleted all my old archives first, so I wouldn't accidentally delete the wrong ones.
No particular catches. The MT systems handles this quite nicely.
When I went to this method of archiving, I deleted all my old archives first, so I wouldn't accidentally delete the wrong ones.
No particular catches. The MT systems handles this quite nicely.
if you're worried, just export your entries.. so you can import them again, if they get messed up..
Yeah, deleting the .html files isn't going to hurt anything because you can regenerate them at any time.
(But you should do exports anyway!)
(But you should do exports anyway!)
Ooh, thank you for this nifty code. I just tried it on my dev blog and the real one, and it worked like a peach!
Thank you!
Thank you!
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