Daily Archives: September 24, 2003

Without addressing all the issues that Matthew brought up with his ultimate Weblogging system, these are a few tricks I have come up with. 1) Use the technique by Richard and Mark to create a keyword url. 2) Go to Weblog Config and change the Archive paths so that they exactly match the ones for the weblog. If you need to maintain some previous path for something, just put the path in Archiving (ex. archives/). Be sure and set the individual archive path to that specified in the entry linked to above). 3) I opted to go the ForceType route. I created an archive template with one line.
bq.ForceType application/x-httpd-php I then set the archiving so it get creates at the year level as a monthly template. It is sort of wasteful to create the same file up to 12 times, but it won’t slow things up. 4) Implement Mar’s Regex Trick to remove index.html from an url. This has become standard in all of my implementations lately, and nicely keeps monthly archives URLs to things like /2003/09/. 5) This is something I think is worth including in the default templates for Movable Type.
bq.<$MTLink template=”RSD Index”$> By linking to these templates by name rather than location, I can move them where I choose and restore the connections with a simple rebuild.

It was interesting deliberately taking a week off to work on some backend things. There are many times that I struggle to find something to write about, and there were so many the last few days that I had to miss. Things will returning back to normal over the next few days (actually, I hope they end up improved rather than just normal). I am going to detail some of the things I am doing for two reasons: one) for other people and two) for me. If you think it looks horrible, please stay tuned. This time, I am not going to stop halfway. But I do have some more work to do on the archives. So be careful of any permalinks you choose for now.