[blog plugin] Sorting posts in the Archive section by years and months

[alina-derkach-oaza]

Hi Community,

Is it possible to configure the Archive section so that the posts are organized by year and month, with each year in its own folder, each year containing subfolders for the months, and each month folder containing the individual posts?

[niclasheinz]

Hi @alina-derkach-oaza

I don't think this is possible at the moment, but I can offer you a workaround (I know it's not perfect):

Here is the config for that:

  - blog:
      post_url_format: "{date}/{slug}"
      post_url_date_format: "yyyy/MM"
      archive_url_format: "archive/{date}"
      archive_url_date_format: "yyyy/MM"
      archive_toc: true 
      archive: true  
      archive_name: "Archive"
      archive_date_format: "yyyy/MM" 

Unfortunately I could not find out how to use a collapsible archive navigation, Sorry

[alina-derkach-oaza]

Thank you for the investigation!

[squidfunk]

That's currently not supported, as it would make navigation construction much more complicated due to the necessity for an additional level of indirection, as the plugin would need to dynamically nest pages into sections based on some criterion. Should this be a string separated by /? How should this work from an authoring perspective? Not quite clear yet.

However, we might investigate in the future whether we can allow for influencing the navigation structure from the blog plugin. In the meantime, this can likely be achieved with a hook and some moderate coding skills ☺️

[alina-derkach-oaza]

Thank you!