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I am a total newbie with Expression Engine.

The Archive Month Links on our site are not functioning correctly as they just keep returning the same results?

The blog page: http://worldsavvy.org/blog/

If you click on any of the months under blog dates, the same results are displayed???

Here is the code directly from the template:

{exp:channel:month_links channel="{segment_1}"}
<li><a href="http://{site_url}{segment_1}/?month={month_num}&year={year}">{month_long} {year}</a></li>
{/exp:channel:month_links}

The channel being referenced is “blog”.

Moved to EE2 Support by Moderator

Hi mgrothman,

Welcome to the forums!

Please have a look at the path parameter in the documentation for the correct way to reference your month archives.

Cheers

Greg

The Categories list (“Blog Categories” on that same page) is set up the same way. It is returning the results correctly?

<div id="blog_categories">
<h3>{segment_1} Categories</h3>
<p>{exp:channel:categories channel="{segment_1}"}<br />
<a href="http://{site_url}{segment_1}/?category={category_id}">{category_name}</a><br />
{/exp:channel:categories}<br />
</div>

I am not sure why they did not set it up with the path variable linking to a template, but when I set it up to point to a template the results are still only parsing the latest entries and not actually the month that is being searched?

Also the {year} variable is returning 2010 for January?

Hi, mgrothman. Are you using EE2.x? You posted in a 1.x support forum, but you’re using the verbage for EE2.x.

Which build/version are you using? You can find that out at the bottom of any control panel page, in the footer.

Sorry, it is in fact version 2.1.0

mgrothman,

I am not really understanding how your menu’s are or why they are set up like they are.
The URLs are non standard to EE. I am referencing Blog Categories and your archive links of course

Take a blog category for example. The URL on your site is http://worldsavvy.org/blog/?category=8

When in fact it should be something like http://worldsavvy.org/blog/category/C8

Your month URLs should look similar to this

http://worldsavvy.org/blog/archives/2011/01/

Are you taking over the developer of this site from another developer?

Regardless of how it was set-up I can tell you your problem is a simple one. Remove the semicolon after &year; and you should be good

{exp:channel:month_links channel="{segment_1}"}
<li><a href="http://{site_url}{segment_1}/?month={month_num}&year={year}">{month_long} {year}</a></li>
{/exp:channel:month_links}

Yes I am taking over the developer of the site. I am trying to figure out the most time efficient way of solving issues with certain aspects of the site not functioning, as well I have never developed in EE before. It isn’t helping that with the research I am doing into developing within the EE framework, the coding from the old developer is just not making sense.

Thank you by the way, but removing the semicolon actually solved nothing.

As John Henry said, it’d be easiest to just use something like http://example.com/blog/archives/2011/01/. You should be able to use {year} and {month_num} for that purpose. EE should automatically use such date-based URLs correctly.

Yes I already attempted this…

Here is my current code:

<div id="blog_dates">
  <h3>{segment_1} Dates</h3>
<p>  <ul><br />
    {exp:channel:month_links channel="{segment_1}"}<br />
    <li><a href="http://{path={segment_1}/archives}">{month_long} {year}</a></li><br />
    {/exp:channel:month_links}<br />
  </ul><br />
</div>

I get a 404 error page, but the links look like they are correct?

http://worldsavvy.org/blog/

Here is an example of the link it is generating now:
http://worldsavvy.org/blog/archives/2011/01

Wondering if it is a problem with some redirect settings on the server?

The {month_long} {year} output is not matching the links correctly either.

Did you create a template called archives in the blog template group?

So I finally was able to decipher the issues and get both the month and category working properly. Thank you for your help on that.

Now on to my next issue. Pagination.

May I ask you to start a new thread for that? It’s generally preferred to keep issues in separate threads. I’ll just split off your posting to a new thread for now, thanks.

Closing this one for now. Split off second issue to here.