Use Jekyll plugin to generate yearly / monthly news archive pages

[postmodern]

Instead of importing the raw news archive pages, use a Jekyll plugin to generate yearly / monthly archive pages.

[postmodern]

@stomar suggestions on Jekyll plugin that can do this?

[postmodern]

@envygeeks you said octopress had a plugin for this? Is it the pagination one?

[envygeeks]

I guess I was mistaken, I thought they had one that did /archives/month/ but it's a single page that has everything group, tbh, SEO wise (unless you want to enforce canonical back to /archives on every single archive page) it's probably better to do it like this: http://envygeeks.com/blog/archives/ I'd be more than happy to share the source to my site which generates that way but Jekyll has the same one: source/blog/archives/index.html

[postmodern]

It appears http://www.ruby-lang.org/ includes the full blog post for older archive pages and the first paragraph for newer archive pages.

• New: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/
• Old: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2005/10/

[postmodern]

Let's look into rolling our own based on other plugins, such as jekyll_archives.

[postmodern]

As a workaround, we could just import the existing pages as-is. This would mean future news posts wouldn't show up on the archive pages, but we wouldn't break any links.

[stomar]

I'm experimenting with a solution similar to the news/ pages. This would mean that for every year a directory and index.md file would need to be created, which essentially contains only the YAML front matter (page title), the posts would be added by some Liquid tags in a layout file.

It's not perfect but probably better (and IMO less work) than importing static content. What do you think?

[postmodern]

I say go for it. I will also try my hand at writing a Jekyll plugin tonight.

[postmodern]

@stomar Might want to hold off, I'm making tons of progress with a custom Jekyll plugin.

[postmodern]

Added a Jekyll Plugin to generate all news archive pages. Although it still needs localilzation.

[stomar]

Nice!