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Hi,
  I’m trying to decide whether to use EE for my newspaper’s website, but I need to know… can it do weekly archives?

Thanks,
Sam

Sure, with the display_by=“week” parameter.

Ah, can’t believe I missed that!  Now if only there was a way to make the week start on a Friday…

(Thanks for the tip.)

The parameter is start_day=“Friday” 😊 Hope this helps.

Cool; thanks.  In the docs it only says start_day can be Monday or Sunday.

Good catch.  I’m thinking you might could go with stop_before and start_on parameters.  But the week limit would be nicer for what you need.  Might be a case for a feature request.

Hi there,
Any thought on how I might use this and generate some subheaders of sort? Sort of like this:

Week 1
-link to weblog entry
-link to weblog entry

Week 2
-link to weblog entry
-link to weblog entry

etc, etc. I have a client who is doing an ongoing ecourse, and we want to display her weblog entries by week, with a little header above them to group each week’s links. I’m in a creative rut as to how to make this happen 😊

I think you’re looking for the date heading variable pair- should do the trick.

ahh OK. 😊 So it might look something like this?:

{date_heading display="weekly"}Week of {week_date format="%Y %m %d"}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="whatever" display_by="week"}
{title}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{/date_heading}

which would output a listing similar to what I referenced above?
Thanks Robin 😊

Sort of- but more like

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="whatever" display_by="week"}
{date_heading display="weekly"}Week of {week_date format="%Y %m %d"}{/date_heading} 
{title}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

It works like the categories variable pair inside the weblog entries tag.  Er- well, not really.  But it needs to be inside the tag.

However- if you’re using display_by week, you’ll only get one week’s worth on a page.  Still- you’ll have a date header in there.

oy vey, I really should have caught that. LOL. I hopped back online because it occured to me it needed to be withIN the weblog entries tag.
Sorry, and thanks for humoring me 😉

Does show_current_week mean the most recent week with entries or the actual current week?

I am using it and it doesn’t work the way I would expect, showing the current week and not the last week something was entered.

I have a weblog with the newest entry being in August. When I show the current week for that weblog I want it to say “No entries for the week”.

Which way is the parameter supposed to work? Also I know it was mentioned above but are Sunday and Monday the only options for start_day? I’d like my week to start on Thursdays (don’t ask!).

Thanks
p

Does show_current_week mean the most recent week with entries or the actual current week?

It means the most recent week with entries.

Sunday and Monday are the only variables.

// date()‘s week variable ‘W’ starts weeks on Monday per ISO-8601.
                // By default we start weeks on Sunday, so we need to do a little dance for
                // entries made on Sundays to make sure they get placed in the right week heading
                if (strtolower($TMPL->fetch_param(‘start_day’)) != ‘monday’ && date(‘w’, $LOC->set_localized_time($row[‘entry_date’])) == 0)

start_day for other than Sunday/Monday is only available in mod.weblog.calendar.