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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 1 Why 2 How to 3 IndieWeb Examples 3.1 Tantek 3.2 Ryan Barrett 3.3 Aaron Parecki 3.4 cweiske 3.5 gRegor Morrill 3.6 Shane Becker 3.7 Ben Roberts 4 See Also

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:

• https://snarfed.org/archive
• https://snarfed.org/responses

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.

• http://aaronparecki.com/2015/08

cweiske

Christian Weiske has an archive subdomain with a couple of hand-picked pages that disappeared - http://archive.cweiske.de/

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.

See Also

• site archive
• archival copy
• navigation
• IndieArchive
• wget
• spiderpig
• wiki/backup