More Blog Funk
March 16th, 2007 Posted in BloggingFYI, I’m tweaking my blog again.
I redesigned my Archives page so it lists the months by year instead of a ridiculously long list using the MTArchivesDateHeader plugin (layout inspired by kottke.org). I might tweak it a bit more. I’d love to list the years in reverse chronological order (latest first) and the months in chronological order (Jan. to Dec.), but I haven’t figured that out yet. I bet I could with MTSQL, but it makes my poor brain hurt. Contrary to all this blog tweaking, I’m not a techie.
I’m also trying to add some pagination to the homepage using the Paged Archives plugin (I’ve been a bit plugin crazy lately). But it doesn’t work yet (sorry). One of my pet peeves with blogs is when you get to the bottom of the homepage and there aren’t any options to keep reading. It’s such a pain to have to scroll back up, find the archives, then scroll through all the entries you just saw to find your place again. Hassle. Wordpress nicely offers pagination by default so you can just go to the next page. That’s what I hope to offer if I can get it to work.
Update: After some help from Alden Bates, the creator of the Paged Archives plugin, the pagination is back in business. Thanks Alden!
