What is the best way to archive posts / stories with Newspaper 7. I am setting up a site for a weekly paper and wondered what method I would use to replace and archive the posts / stories for each week.
Please offer any suggestions.
Thanks.
Phil
HI
I am not very sure what you’re trying to do so please provide more specific details about the desired result and maybe I can help.
Thanks!
When you have a weekly newspaper there is a need to move the posts / stories from this week’s issue to an archive so readers can search back on previous stories (posts).
How can I automatically (or manually) move the articles / stories / posts that appear in this weeks issue into an archive. Here is the paper I am trying to set up Newspaper 7 for (currently they are using another designer and drupal to create their online paper — for a lot of money each month). http://post.mainelymediallc.com/
Please note that the categories (Front Page, Community, Columns, Letters, Obituaries, Things to Do) need to have fresh articles every week and the old articles (posts) need to move to an archive.
I have been searching every where on the Internet to find an answer — someone must know how to do this.
Thanks.
Phil
Likely good to read up on how WordPress works in general. This “theme” doens’t control how posts, categories, tags, or anything else related to dbase is managed (e.g., the ‘content’).
One strategy is to make ‘featured’ categories such as ‘breaking’ or ‘featured’ and initially post stories in those categories, then when you need to retire them and no longer want them in those feautured categories, simply revisit those posts, and change the category from featured to ‘archive’ …
There may be a plugin or script which allows you to setup a date range and automatically do that.
Normally in WP, one creates indexes or home page blocks which are date based, meaning if you have 10 featured items on home page, they are all there until item 11 is published, then item 10 drops off that module. Everything is still there in the dbase, and date based archives in WordPress, searchable, etc. URLs don’t change, for long-tail view from social, search, etc.
But not really theme related in any way.
Hi
Thanks @Chris for your response!
@Crandlemire a possible solution that may help you would be to change a bit the functionality of random 7 days filter. Now this filter displays random posts from last 7 days but its functionality can be changed to display all posts from last 7 days. To achieve that you need to edit td_data_source.php and comment this line: http://screencast.com/t/Ho2830Im
Other solution would be to use post id filter in blocks: http://screencast.com/t/ilxhM3snhxz This option allows you to chose what posts to display in each block by their’s id. However it is not very convenient because you have to edit the block weekly to update the ids, but is the most relevant and offers you control over the post displayed.
I hope this helps.
Thanks!
