Hi, this is my first post on the roller lists. I have a request related to paging back to previous blog posts using the calendar.
Do not provide a link back to the previous month/day/year if you are beyond the blogs first post and of course don't link to a future month/year. This prevents bots from recursively following the calendar backwards or forwards when there are no blog entries. On my roller site I created a simple archives page that lists links with the title for every blog entry. I did this so that search engines get an opportunity to index all of the blog entries. I did this by creating a simple JavaBean which uses the Roller API. This JavaBean can then be used in a simple JSP page which just lists the archived links/titles. Regards, Glenn Nielsen On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:50:41PM -0500, Dave Johnson wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Allen Gilliland wrote: > >gotcha. definitely seems like something we should continue to have. > > Yep, we need some way to page back in time. > > > >i will admit though, that i think our weblog entry pagification is a > >bit quirky and messed up. i don't use it, so it doesn't bother me > >much, but i know of 2 things that i've noted in the past. > > > >1. the next/previous links don't work properly for permalinks. > >previous works, but next always goes to the most recent entry. > > That's how it should work on a single entry page. > > > >2. a date based archive like /page/20050920 shows a full page of > >entries rather than just the entries from that day. why? > > That's how Roller has always worked, and it's wrong. It causes cache > duplication and it can even prevent people from viewing entries. For > example, let's say you have 50 posts on one day, but you're blog is > configured to show only the most recent 15 entries. You miss entries 16 > through 50. > > > >it seems to me that we should support all 3 date based urls, /2005, > >/200509, /20050920, and each should be limited to the scope of the > >date presented. i.e. if someone just puts the year then they will > >only see entries for that year, same for month, same for day. > > We should definitely support single-entry, day, month and year views. > For the year and month views, we might want to get creative and show a > calendar rather than a bandwidth-busting big page of entries. > > But the main page of a blog should display some number of days recent > posts, with the option of displaying them grouped by day. > > So, if we provide access to month, day and year views, do we really > need a way to page back in time in chunks of X entries at a time? I > like that features, but it causes weblog entries to be duplicated in > the cache (since each also appears on a single entry page). > > - Dave > > > > > > >wouldn't that make a lot more sense? > > > >-- Allen > > > > > >On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 11:07, Matt Raible wrote: > >>Look at http://jroller.com/page/raible - and scroll to the bottom of > >>the page. There's a link to see the previous 10 posts. > >> > >>Look at http://raibledesigns.com and scroll to the bottom - the link > >>no longer exists. > >> > >>Matt > >> > >>On 11/29/05, Allen Gilliland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>I'm not sure I understand what functionality you guys are talking > >>>about. Is this something that is found on weblog pages? or on the > >>>editor/admin UI? > >>> > >>>-- Allen > >>> > >>> > >>>On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 19:24, Dave Johnson wrote: > >>>>That one slipped through the cracks. > >>>> > >>>>There's a next-prev macro that works on single-entry pages, but we > >>>>should add that back. > >>>> > >>>>- Dave > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Matt Raible wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>One of the features I liked in Roller 1.x was a link at the bottom > >>>>>of > >>>>>a page that linked page a page to previous posts. This seems to be > >>>>>missing from Roller 2.0 - why? > >>>>> > >>>>>Matt > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > > Glenn
