Archives for pages is a way to store and access pages by their publication period (usually month and year). It displays a list of available months and leads a visitor to pages published during that month.
1. Features
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Select categories where to grab pages.
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Use full category permissions, options and custom template for archives if necessary.
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SE-friendly parameters.
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Can display months menu on index, page and page list.
2. Installation
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Download the plugin and extract "pagearchive" to your plugins directory.
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Go to Administration / Extensions / Page Archive and install the plugin.
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Go to Administration / Structure / Pages and create a "fake" category for page archives.
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Go to Administration / Extensions / Page Archive / Configuration and put your category code there. By default it is "archives".
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Put {INDEX_PAGEARCHIVE} tag to your index.tpl. See plugin details page for tags in other TPLs.
3. Advanced usage
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To customize archives category title, description, default sorting order and template name, just edit these properties of the "fake" category you created.
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By default you can customize archives category output in "page.your_fake_category_name.tpl".
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To customize the markup of the months menu, copy "plugins/pagearchive/tpl/pagearchive.tpl" to your theme's "plugins" folder and edit it.
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A rule for URLEditor custom preset looks like this:
page c=archives&year=*&month=* {cot_url_catpath()}/{$year}/{$month}
(where archives is your fake category name)
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