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First of all, I want to say Hi to everyone as this is my first post here.

Now to the matter at hand: Is there any way to mimic the Archive Month Links tag functionality for Days (or Weeks), instead of Months?

My weblog setup is fairly unique. I’m posting a bunch of entries on Mondays only. These will only get displayed as a daily archive (no individual pages for each entry) so I need a proper method of navigating from one day’s entries to the previous/next. I can get the pagination working by using the [display_by=“day”] property but I would like the date to show up in the URL, instead of the classic page number. Basically, show the URLs as “/weblog/2008-08-11/” or at least “/weblog/2008/08/11/”, instead of “/weblog/P1/”.

An alternative would be to address this as magazine issues, i.e. “/weblog/1/” for the first set of entries, “/weblog/2/” for the second, and so on.

Any ideas will be more than welcome.

PS: I can’t group all of the daily entries in one big entry as each one needs to have its own category.

Sorry but I have to bump it as I’m quite short on time for a solution on this.

Do you think it’s at least possible to get something like this working? Yes? No? Anyone? Please 😊

Ok, so I’ve got it to work so that if I navigate to “/weblog/2008/08/11/” it will display all the entries for that day.

The problem is now the pagination. How can I dynamically create a link to the previous and/or next days? Do date parameters work inside a SQL queries via the Query module?
Something like: { exp:query sql="SELECT entry_date FROM exp_weblog_titles WHERE entry_date<{ entry_date}”} ???

PS: Not really feeling the love from the ‘How To’ community so far… :(

It’s a tricky question- the only time I did something similar, I cannibalized the calendar.  But for what you’re doing- the simple way would be to use display_by=“day” limit=“1”

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blog" display_by="day" limit="1"}
{title} - {entry_date format="%Y %m %d"}

{paginate}
Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}
{/paginate}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Not the kind of urls you were wanting.  But it’s simple.

I did all that with the display_by=“day” but I really need the URLs to show the date instead of the default “P0”, “P1”, etc. You’re saying it’s possible to get it working somehow via the calendar tag?