Hello Glen,
Actually, you are right about the importance of this, as users usually
searchby date for any blog, unless you are blogging about a particular
topic on a certain day of the week.
I was also thinking about the tree structure in side menu, rather than a
page. I can contribute to this and make a new macro so, user can include
that in their side menu. Just want to know what steps I have to follow
to add this enhancement/patch to Roller. Do I have to file any JIRA ?
Can you please guide me into this.
Thanks
Gaurav
On Saturday 07 December 2013 07:20 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
Hmm, I might argue that the date a blog article is posted is of
secondary importance to its content, e.g., I group my blog entries by
subject: http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/blog_article_index, date
is largely irrelevant. Wouldn't your tree view be more useful if it
was broken up by category and blog articles underneath instead of by
dates?
Another problem with emphasizing dates is that they make blogs look
obsolete more quickly, because sometimes months go by at a time before
someone blogs again, and a date archive then makes the blog look
inactive. Having lists by category gives a blog a much longer shelf
life, and doesn't "punish" a blogger who maintains his older entries
instead of just entering in new entries.
The blog archive page is probably seldom used today (you may be better
off removing it), the tree view you're contemplating might be better
in a side menu of a blog (just like here:
http://coheigea.blogspot.com/ [1]). A macro that would provide the
data allowing something like [1] to be constructed would be a nice
enhancement to Roller (but, actually, we may already be able to
support that--I'm not sure.) Patches to Roller JIRA welcome.
The current archive page *could* be useful if you're always blogging
about a particular topic on a certain day of the week. If Wednesdays
you're always blogging about X and Fridays always Y a calendar view
does a better job of allowing someone to get to all "X" or "Y"
articles better than the tree view in [1].
Regards,
Glen
On 12/06/2013 08:45 AM, Gaurav wrote:
Hello,
The archives which are now show as in calender. There are some
shortcoming of that is we can't see the whole list of blogs month and
year wise.
There can have some sort of tree structure or we can have some
different macro, so we can redesign the archives page as user want.
Tree Structure
>2013
>Jan
>Blog1
>Blog2
>March
>2013
>April
>Blg4
Thanks
Gaurav
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