Begginner question: Do articles get archived automatically?
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I”ve recently been talked into using Joomla platform for my website. I’m doing a blog on the site, and my site guy has informed me that the blog posts do NOT get automatically archived. I have to post items in the archive section. Is this normal? I just assumed that any decent blog (such as wordpress) should have a section that automatically accumulates old articles…
thanks…
jfThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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We can’t help you with Joomla. This is JUST for blogs hosted at WordPress.com, where, yes, the are automatically archived.
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Also the WordPress.org software that you are using also does an automatic archive. WordPress is just a big database and the pages you see are generated on the fly only when you ask them. All the tricky back room database stuff is done automatically.
Since your WordPress site is installed on your own web site your questions in the future would should be ask at WordPress.ORG the keepers of the software you are using: http://wordpress.org/support/
For more on the difference: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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Some of this is off-topic for this forum, but let me add some clarification here.
What wordpress does is not what a true “archive” does. What wordpress does, is provide a way of organizing your posts by month/year. The posts still remain active on your blog, listed right along with our other posts, clear back to the beginning post. A true archive function would allow you to either manually or automatically (by setting a time interval) move your posts off of the main posts listing so that they would not show on the blog pages. WordPress does not provide this true archive functionality.
Joomla has a true “archive” function in that you can archive articles (manually) and they will no longer be displayed in the normal article listings. The articles are kept, but not accessible by the public. There are plugins/modules which you can install in Joomla to extend the Joomla archive function and set an expiration date for articles and when they reach that time, the article is automatically archived and disappears from the site.
Joomla also lets you set a “finished publishing” date for each article and when that date arrives, the article is “unpublished,” but it is not automatically archived.
Apples and oranges here.
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It may be apples and oranges, but it is now very clear to me. Thank you guys very much for the great answers. I get it now!
jf
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What wordpress does, is provide a way of organizing your posts by month/year. The posts still remain active on your blog, listed right along with our other posts, clear back to the beginning post.
This seems to address an issue I’ve been trying to find info on. Does WordPress keep all my blog posts endlessly on my main (Home) page, even while categorizing them by month/year?
That is, if I write 1000 posts, are they all going to be stuck there on my Home page for endless scrolling?
Is there a way to lop off the older posts, so that they aren’t displayed on the Home page but still accessible via “Archive,” Categories, etc.?
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Just set the home page to only display 10 Posts or what ever you want.
Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading >> Blog pages show at most xx
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Thank you! I never thought to look under “Reading” for that control, & none of the search terms I was using in Sujpport took me there.
Appreciated.
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