archive
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archive in the context of the indieweb refers to date-grouped (often monthly) sets of posts (AKA personal historical archives, a common form of navigation), but can sometimes mean archival copy, a copy of a web page made (often by someone other than the author) at a particular point in time.
For an archive of an entire site,
- see site archive
For “the Archive”,
- see Internet Archive
Contents
Why
Providing access to archives helps people browse your past content.
How to
There are many approaches to providing archive navigation UI.
Typically people provide links to specific months and years, sometimes in a list of links, sometimes in a list of years that expend to months, and then only the month links actually navigate you to archives for those months.
IndieWeb Examples
Tantek
Tantek Çelik uses Falcon to serve composite archive pages (unlinked) on tantek.com for each day since 2010, e.g.:
- http://tantek.com/2014/255/ with RSVP, reply, and note with auto-embed all from the same day
And before that, all his blog posts were written and served directly from archive pages by Gregorian month, from 2002-08-08 to 2008-08-08
Ryan Barrett
Ryan Barrett uses WordPress to serve an archive index and archives on snarfed.org for posts since 2003-06-29:
Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki uses p3k to serve composite archive pages on aaronparecki.com since 2014-10-05, e.g.:
- http://aaronparecki.com/2014/09/10 with pushup, reply, bicycle, note, event, bookmark, and sleep all on the same day
There is also a monthly view which renders a calendar month in a table, and includes icons for each post, as well as a list of all the hashtags and locations from that day.
cweiske
gRegor Morrill
gRegor Morrill has an archive page at http://gregorlove.com/archives/ since 2011-02-14 [1]. It is inspired by Tumblr's archive page.
- Tantek Çelik: beautiful design.
Shane Becker
Shane Becker uses Dark Matter to serve composite and post type specific archive pages (unlinked) on http://veganstraightedge.com (with pagination) since 2014-10-07, e.g.:
- http://veganstraightedge.com/2014/09/18 (all posts, notes and an article in this case, on this year/month/day)
- http://veganstraightedge.com/2014/09/18/page/3 (the third page of all posts on this year/month/day)
- http://veganstraightedge.com/videos/2013/05 (all videos from a year/month)
- http://veganstraightedge.com/notes/2014/10/06 (all notes from a year/month/day)
Ben Roberts
Ben Roberts uses Postly to serve composite archives in either monthly (linked - /YYYY/MM) or daily (unlinked - /YYYY/MM/DD) format since 2014-10-07.
Rachel Andrew
Rachel Andrew publishes an archive view with a few different tiers of visual hierarchy of past blog posts. At the top is a primary article with a background image and post name and subtitle. Next is 6 posts with colored backgrounds instead of photos, and one or two sentences in addition to the post name. Lastly are 8 more articles visually smaller and with shorter summaries.
Jonathan LaCour
Jonathan LaCour has an archive page at https://cleverdevil.io/archive since 3/6/2018. The archive page shows content grouped by year and month, with options to view content within a particular month, or on a specific day via a link. Each year is displayed as a horizontal timeline with a pleasing gradient:
