Listing Blogger Archives by Title
I know I put these instructions somewhere, but now I need them again and I can’t find them as usual.
I hunted down the page again that has the instructions:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=892
The fast answer is that you copy the part of your template between <Blogger>...</Blogger>
And paste it here:
<MainPage> <Blogger>...</Blogger> </MainPage> <ItemPage> <Blogger>...</Blogger> </ItemPage>
The same code is in there twice, once for the main page and once for the item page.
<ArchivePage> <Blogger> <BlogItemTitle> <a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"><$BlogItemTitle$></a> <br /> </BlogItemTitle> </Blogger> </ArchivePage>
I really hate this….
The main pages work, but the Item pages just show the tags…. Just like the last two times I have done this. I have the instructions on how to fix this some where but I can’t find them.
So it looks like I have to figure this out all over again…. For the third time.
Hopefully I will be a little faster at it that the first two times.
In the <MainPage> you can cut out all the tags that are marked <ItemPage> because I don’t think they do anything… But that won’t solve the problem.
I searched some more and found some note on the last time I did this procedure, and how I solved the problem is I cut out everything between the <ItemPage> and </ItemPage> tags, then I started adding the code back in a few lines at a time.
This time I did the same thing and I found out that if you have two nested <ItemPage> tags then your blog will not work.
It will kick out of the blogger mode retroactively to the first tag – don’t ask me why or how…. That’s just what it does.
So you need to go through and delete any extra <ItemPage> tags you have.
To try and make this a little more clear:
You can do this:
<ItemPage>
</ItemPage>
<ItemPage>
</ItemPage>
And you will have no problems.
However, if you do this:
<ItemPage>
<ItemPage>
</ItemPage>
</ItemPage>
Blogger will start at the first <ItemPage> tag and refuse to go into Blogger mode so your <blogger> tags are useless.
Also on the archive page the title does not link back to the home page, only the item pages do.
Right after the <body> tag you will find something like this
<h1 id="blog-title">
<ItemPage><a href="<$BlogURL$>"></ItemPage>
<$BlogTitle$>
<ItemPage></a></ItemPage>
</h1>
Change it to this:
<h1 id="blog-title">
<ItemPage><a href="<$BlogURL$>"></ItemPage>
<ArchivePage><a href="<$BlogURL$>"></ArchivePage>
<$BlogTitle$>
<ItemPage></a></ItemPage>
< ArchivePage ></a></ ArchivePage >
</h1>
I also like to add the archives links on to the item pages
To do this just delete the <MainOrArchivePage> tags around the archive section
These are located toward the bottom.
I hunted down the page again that has the instructions:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=892
The fast answer is that you copy the part of your template between <Blogger>...</Blogger>
And paste it here:
<MainPage> <Blogger>...</Blogger> </MainPage> <ItemPage> <Blogger>...</Blogger> </ItemPage>
The same code is in there twice, once for the main page and once for the item page.
<ArchivePage> <Blogger> <BlogItemTitle> <a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"><$BlogItemTitle$></a> <br /> </BlogItemTitle> </Blogger> </ArchivePage>
I really hate this….
The main pages work, but the Item pages just show the tags…. Just like the last two times I have done this. I have the instructions on how to fix this some where but I can’t find them.
So it looks like I have to figure this out all over again…. For the third time.
Hopefully I will be a little faster at it that the first two times.
In the <MainPage> you can cut out all the tags that are marked <ItemPage> because I don’t think they do anything… But that won’t solve the problem.
I searched some more and found some note on the last time I did this procedure, and how I solved the problem is I cut out everything between the <ItemPage> and </ItemPage> tags, then I started adding the code back in a few lines at a time.
This time I did the same thing and I found out that if you have two nested <ItemPage> tags then your blog will not work.
It will kick out of the blogger mode retroactively to the first tag – don’t ask me why or how…. That’s just what it does.
So you need to go through and delete any extra <ItemPage> tags you have.
To try and make this a little more clear:
You can do this:
<ItemPage>
</ItemPage>
<ItemPage>
</ItemPage>
And you will have no problems.
However, if you do this:
<ItemPage>
<ItemPage>
</ItemPage>
</ItemPage>
Blogger will start at the first <ItemPage> tag and refuse to go into Blogger mode so your <blogger> tags are useless.
Also on the archive page the title does not link back to the home page, only the item pages do.
Right after the <body> tag you will find something like this
<h1 id="blog-title">
<ItemPage><a href="<$BlogURL$>"></ItemPage>
<$BlogTitle$>
<ItemPage></a></ItemPage>
</h1>
Change it to this:
<h1 id="blog-title">
<ItemPage><a href="<$BlogURL$>"></ItemPage>
<ArchivePage><a href="<$BlogURL$>"></ArchivePage>
<$BlogTitle$>
<ItemPage></a></ItemPage>
< ArchivePage ></a></ ArchivePage >
</h1>
I also like to add the archives links on to the item pages
To do this just delete the <MainOrArchivePage> tags around the archive section
These are located toward the bottom.
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1:09 AM
