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Hi,

I’m trying to build an archive page that has the Month and year as a header, and the full title of each post below. Here’s what I was doing…

{exp:weblog:month_links weblog="Posts"}
  
  <h3>{month} {year}</h3>
<p>  <ul><br />
  {exp:weblog:entries weblog="Posts" orderby="date" sort="desc"}<br />
    <li><a href="http://{title_permalink=post/view}">{title}</a></li><br />
  {/exp:weblog:entries}<br />
  </ul><br />
  <br />
{/exp:weblog:month_links}

However I just read on the forums that nesting the entries inside the month_links tag probably isn’t the best way to go. Is there a reason why, and what is the preferred method? Also, what about pulling in entries from multiple weblogs in a single archive?

Thanks!

You could use date_heading and date_footer inside exp:weblog:entries:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="Posts"}

{date_heading display="monthly"}
<h2>{entry_date format="%F %Y"}</h1>
<ul>
{/date_heading}

<li><a href="http://{title_permalink=post/view}">{title}</a></li>

{date_footer display="monthly"}
</ul>
{/date_footer}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

That should give you headings with the month and year (August 2008), followed by a list of entries for each month. (See Date Variable Formatting for other date formats.)

thanks so much for your help, that worked great!

That is indeed sweet, I learn something new every day 😊 Bookmarked!