I'm trying to use MT to put my work's newsletter into a database-driven website. I've figured out how to get the date heading to read by the month and year, but it still want to group the posts themselves by day.
The effect is that there are as many "May 2003" headings are there are daily posts for that month. What's the trick?
Full Version: how to list posts by month on index?
I think you want <MTDateHeader>:
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MTDateHeader
A container tag: the contents of this container will be displayed only if this entry marks a new day in the list of entries. As such this is really only useful inside an MTEntries container. For example:
A container tag: the contents of this container will be displayed only if this entry marks a new day in the list of entries. As such this is really only useful inside an MTEntries container. For example:
CODE
<MTEntries>
<MTDateHeader>
<$MTEntryDate format="%B %e, %Y"$>
</MTDateHeader>
Title: <$MTEntryTitle$>
</MTEntries>
<MTDateHeader>
<$MTEntryDate format="%B %e, %Y"$>
</MTDateHeader>
Title: <$MTEntryTitle$>
</MTEntries>
I've got the date format displaying correctly. It's the sorting of the posts that's not right. This is what I've got now:
So if there's a post on May 1 and May 3, it displays:
May 2003
Post from first day of May yada yada.
May 2003
Post from third day of May, but listed with it's own month heading.
CODE
<MTEntries>
<$MTEntryTrackbackData$>
<MTDateHeader>
<h2 class="date">
<$MTEntryDate format="%B %Y"$>
</h2>
</MTDateHeader>
<$MTEntryTrackbackData$>
<MTDateHeader>
<h2 class="date">
<$MTEntryDate format="%B %Y"$>
</h2>
</MTDateHeader>
So if there's a post on May 1 and May 3, it displays:
May 2003
Post from first day of May yada yada.
May 2003
Post from third day of May, but listed with it's own month heading.
So how would you like it to display?
if so, the date format that Maddy posted should work...
Kristine
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May 1, 2003
Post from the first day...
May 3, 2003
Post from the third day....
Post from the first day...
May 3, 2003
Post from the third day....
if so, the date format that Maddy posted should work...
Kristine
I didn't post any code (yet)! 
You'll really need to give an example of how you do want to have your entries laid out.
But, depending on what you want to do, you might like to check out the DateHeaders plugin, in particular the MTMonthHeader option.
If you want to create a list of your entries separated by month, you might also want to look at some code like this:
That will give you something like:
May 2003
May 23
Title One
Title Two
May 12
Title One
Title Two
April 2003
April 26
Title One
April 12
Title One
Title Two
and so on, for all of your entries. If you want to limit display to say, two months, you can change the first line of code like this:
You'll really need to give an example of how you do want to have your entries laid out.
But, depending on what you want to do, you might like to check out the DateHeaders plugin, in particular the MTMonthHeader option.
If you want to create a list of your entries separated by month, you might also want to look at some code like this:
CODE
<MTArchiveList archive_type="Monthly">
<b><MTArchiveDate format="%B %Y"></b><br />
<MTEntries>
<MTDateHeader>
<i><$MTEntryDate format="%B %e"$></i><br />
</MTDateHeader>
<$MTEntryTitle$><br />
</MTEntries>
</MTArchiveList>
<b><MTArchiveDate format="%B %Y"></b><br />
<MTEntries>
<MTDateHeader>
<i><$MTEntryDate format="%B %e"$></i><br />
</MTDateHeader>
<$MTEntryTitle$><br />
</MTEntries>
</MTArchiveList>
That will give you something like:
May 2003
May 23
Title One
Title Two
May 12
Title One
Title Two
April 2003
April 26
Title One
April 12
Title One
Title Two
and so on, for all of your entries. If you want to limit display to say, two months, you can change the first line of code like this:
CODE
<MTArchiveList archive_type="Monthly" lastn="2">
LOL, I saw Girlie's post and then by the time I replied, I typed your name. :giggle: I'm a goof!
I am having such trouble with my DateHeaders Plugin - this thread is the closest to an answer that I've come, so I thought I'd bump it up to ask for help (rather than start a new one).
I want to sort my individual archives by year/month, without actually enabling monthly archives. Like this:
The closest I'm getting is this:
Where each entry is prefixed by its date, rather than a group of entries per date. My code looks like this:
And I just cannot find enough documentation on this plugin to make sense of it. It's a bit frustrating, 'cause I've gotten other things sorted
Any suggestions would be *seriously* appreciated!
Brooke
I want to sort my individual archives by year/month, without actually enabling monthly archives. Like this:
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June 2003
-title
-title
-title
May 2003
-title
-title
-title
-title
-title
-title
May 2003
-title
-title
-title
The closest I'm getting is this:
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January 2003
» myopia
January 2003
» Snow!
December 2002
» soap.
December 2002
» wasp woman's revenge
November 2002
» BtVS - Never Leave Me
November 2002
» Timber!
» myopia
January 2003
» Snow!
December 2002
» soap.
December 2002
» wasp woman's revenge
November 2002
» BtVS - Never Leave Me
November 2002
» Timber!
Where each entry is prefixed by its date, rather than a group of entries per date. My code looks like this:
CODE
<MTArchiveList><MTMonthHeader>
<MTArchiveDate format="%B %Y"><br />
</MTMonthHeader><MTDateHeader>
» <a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>">
<$MTArchiveTitle$></a><br />
</MTDateHeader></MTEntries><br />
</MTArchiveList>
<MTArchiveDate format="%B %Y"><br />
</MTMonthHeader><MTDateHeader>
» <a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>">
<$MTArchiveTitle$></a><br />
</MTDateHeader></MTEntries><br />
</MTArchiveList>
And I just cannot find enough documentation on this plugin to make sense of it. It's a bit frustrating, 'cause I've gotten other things sorted
Any suggestions would be *seriously* appreciated! Brooke
I think that your problem is being caused from not actually having monthly archiving turned on. You may need to look at one of the plugins that trick MT ArchiveAnyway pops out in my mind as one to try.
Kristine
ArchiveAnyway pops out in my mind as one to try.Kristine
Much thanks, Kristine! Somehow I was thinking that the DateHeaders plugin did trick MT, but obviously...
I'll give ArchiveAnyway a try then - I've got it bookmarked I think, so it looks like I might've tinkered w/ it before.
I'll give ArchiveAnyway a try then - I've got it bookmarked I think, so it looks like I might've tinkered w/ it before.
Sorted!
This one ended up using both plugins - there may be a way around it. Probably you could sub the DateHeaders plugin for one of the MTCalendar tags, but I'm not terribly familiar with those so... My code looks like this (just in case anyone else needs to do this):
It was terribly simple once I started working with ArchiveAnyway. I've spent months toying with this off-and-on, and once I did this it all fell into place.
Thank you Kristine!
This one ended up using both plugins - there may be a way around it. Probably you could sub the DateHeaders plugin for one of the MTCalendar tags, but I'm not terribly familiar with those so... My code looks like this (just in case anyone else needs to do this):
CODE
<MTArchiveAnyway archive_type="Monthly">
<MTMonthHeader>
<MTArchiveDate format="%B %Y"><br />
</MTMonthHeader>
<MTEntries sort_order="descend">
<a href="<$MTEntryLink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a><br />
</MTEntries>
</MTArchiveAnyway>
<MTMonthHeader>
<MTArchiveDate format="%B %Y"><br />
</MTMonthHeader>
<MTEntries sort_order="descend">
<a href="<$MTEntryLink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a><br />
</MTEntries>
</MTArchiveAnyway>
It was terribly simple once I started working with ArchiveAnyway. I've spent months toying with this off-and-on, and once I did this it all fell into place.
Thank you Kristine!
Thanks to new features of MT4.x, now this task is solving without any plugins and the 3d party tricks:
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<MTEntries sort_order="descend">
<mt:SetVarBlock name="this_month"><MTEntryDate format="%Y-%m"></mt:SetVarBlock>
<mt:if name="this_month" ne="$prev_month">
<p><strong><MTGetVar name="this_month"></strong></p>
<mt:SetVarBlock name="prev_month"><MTGetVar name="this_month"></mt:SetVarBlock>
</mt:if>
<p><a href="<MTEntryLink>"><MTEntryTitle></a></p>
</MTEntries>
<mt:SetVarBlock name="this_month"><MTEntryDate format="%Y-%m"></mt:SetVarBlock>
<mt:if name="this_month" ne="$prev_month">
<p><strong><MTGetVar name="this_month"></strong></p>
<mt:SetVarBlock name="prev_month"><MTGetVar name="this_month"></mt:SetVarBlock>
</mt:if>
<p><a href="<MTEntryLink>"><MTEntryTitle></a></p>
</MTEntries>
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