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9:06 am
September 6, 2013
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retireby40
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Does anyone know how to make a good archives page?
Something like Mr Money Mustache's archives page would be nice.
Thanks in advance!
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1:45 pm
September 7, 2013
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Dividend Ninja
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Joe,
You want the Latest Post from each Category Plugin (from Dagon Design):
http://www.dagondesign.com/art…..wordpress/
There are also other plugins as well that do that….
Cheers
Avrom
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1:46 pm
September 7, 2013
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Dividend Ninja
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Why do my links get shortened and become unusable whenever I post here?
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3:14 pm
September 7, 2013
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Edward Antrobus
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Why do my links get shortened and become unusable whenever I post here?
a quirk of the forum software. it just doesn't like links unless you add them with the toolbar (which doesn't load on mobile devices)
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11:54 pm
September 7, 2013
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maria@moneyprinciple
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I have a list of posts according to time of publication and this can be done using a plug in (if you send me a me a message John would let you know how he did it). However, as a reader I don't find this very useful – usually I am not interested in what Mr Money Moustache or The Money Principle were thinking at particular point in time but in the blog's position on certain issues.
Hence, I like Leo Babauta's way to archive and have been working on something like that for TMP. Thing is, this is hard because it demands (re)-conceptualising your blog and figuring out exactly what it is about (in some detail).
Maria
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7:04 am
September 8, 2013
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Edward Antrobus
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Post edited 12:34 pm – September 8, 2013 by Edward Antrobus
Maria, do you mean like category archives? Each of my posts typically gets 3-4 sub-categories and I have a drill-down menu. So if someone wants to see what I've written on the topic of homeownership, for instance, it is easy to do so. but, yes, going back and adding new categories to old posts was a fair bit of work.
*edited to fix stupid autocrorrects
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I'm looking for editors, beta-readers, and some demographic research for my upcoming novel, Once Upon a Saturn Moon. If you like reading soft sci-fi thrillers, maybe with a touch of romance thrown in, you can find more information at http://seampublishing.com/once…..aturn-moon
If You Can Read, You Can Cook – http://www.ifyoucanread.com | Think you can't cook? If you can read this sentence, then you can.
SEAM Publishing – http://www.seampublishing.com | eBook formatting and publishing service
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11:19 am
September 8, 2013
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maria@moneyprinciple
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Not really; I have categories but they don't do the job either – too many. I am talking about 3-5 main themes going through the blog and then the selection will have to be manual I suppose. If you wish to know about this….
I'll let you know when ready with it anyway; another incentive to get it done.
Maria
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11:27 am
September 8, 2013
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Dividend Ninja
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maria@moneyprinciple said:
Not really; I have categories but they don't do the job either – too many. I am talking about 3-5 main themes going through the blog and then the selection will have to be manual I suppose. If you wish to know about this….
I'll let you know when ready with it anyway; another incentive to get it done.
Maria
Hi Maria,
The plugin I mentioned allows you to sort either by Date or Monthly – it gives you the best of both worlds. And its just one small php file, so its light-weight on resources. You'll have to be able to FTP it up to your plugins folder.
I used to have the entire archive posts sorted by Categories with this plugin, and readers liked that. I've switched back to the usual format though for other monetization reasons…
Cheers
Avrom
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12:40 pm
September 8, 2013
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Edward Antrobus
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maria@moneyprinciple said:
Not really; I have categories but they don't do the job either – too many. I am talking about 3-5 main themes going through the blog and then the selection will have to be manual I suppose. If you wish to know about this….
I'll let you know when ready with it anyway; another incentive to get it done.
Maria
I am interested. Because it still sounds like you are still talking about something that can be done with categories. Set up some "super-categories" of each of those main themes. I do the same thing. Questions, Practical Tips, and "Personal Finance Contrarian" would be my three main themes for my site. Probably 75% of my posts fall into one of those three categories. Those posts get those as a category, plus categories for whatever topics they cover, such as frugality, retirement, or home ownership.
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I'm looking for editors, beta-readers, and some demographic research for my upcoming novel, Once Upon a Saturn Moon. If you like reading soft sci-fi thrillers, maybe with a touch of romance thrown in, you can find more information at http://seampublishing.com/once…..aturn-moon
If You Can Read, You Can Cook – http://www.ifyoucanread.com | Think you can't cook? If you can read this sentence, then you can.
SEAM Publishing – http://www.seampublishing.com | eBook formatting and publishing service
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1:09 pm
September 8, 2013
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maria@moneyprinciple
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Thanks Avrom and Edward; we'll have a play with this and let you know.
Maria
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4:42 pm
September 10, 2013
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retireby40
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I went with the smart archives reloaded plugin. Yes, it's another plugin, but it's working pretty well.
Thanks for your input!
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8:10 am
September 11, 2013
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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Genesis has some great options for customizing your archives pages, so I just used that.
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