The Calendar Block, a question

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    sallybr · Member ·

    I just switched my blog to Nook, and added the calendar block. I was expecting it to be like the calendar I have in my main food blog (bewitchingkitchen.com) but it is not. It shows the current month and if you click below it shows all posts from the previous month as a grid view, but I don’t see a way to navigate the calendar through the three years of blogging, so if I want to use it to quickly find a post I published a year ago, I don’t see how to do it….. am I missing something?

    thank you

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  • vajrasar · Staff ·

    Your theme uses Index template as the Homepage (where you have content + calendar on the left side), and All Archives template as the Archives page to display the list of posts (where you see the grid of posts with no calendar option).

    When you click on month/date on calendar on homepage it opens the posts on the Archives page, and hence you lose the calendar option.

    The solution is to have the structure of content you have on the homepage, on the archives page. So, copying the structure from the Index template to the All Archives template.

    Here is a sample video from my site (using the same theme) for reference of how to do that: https://share.cleanshot.com/40qsksyX

  • Unknown's avatar
    sallybr · Member ·

    thank you, will try it

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    sallybr · Member ·

    well, there is simply zero possibility I will be able to reproduce what you did….. I know you did your best to help me out, but I think first I need to feel a lot more comfortable with the block thing, and that in itself is not going very smoothly……. ;-( I will keep trying

  • vajrasar · Staff ·

    To test what I suggested and to also test more customizations, you can create a test site, install the same theme (since the theme you are using is a free theme), use the content from the for-the-love-of-cookies.com site on your test site, and then practice making the changes.

    Steps:

    1. Create a site on the free plan. You can start here https://wordpress.com/start. Stick with the free plan, and the default WordPress.com address of the site. Since its a test site, you do not need custom domain name on it.
    2. Once the test site is created, select the “Nook” theme on it. Here is the theme https://wordpress.com/theme/nook. Activate it on the test site.
    3. Without adding any content on the test site, launch it. Here is how https://wordpress.com/support/launch-your-website.
    4. Come back to the for-the-love-of-cookies.com site and export its content (exporting content means making a copy of the content). Use steps in the section “Export your content” here: https://wordpress.com/support/export/#export-content-to-another-word-press-site
    5. Once export is done and you have the export file, come back to the new test site and import the content to it, using the steps in the section “Import the content” here: https://wordpress.com/support/import/import-a-sites-content/
    6. Once done, you will see that you have the the new test site with the same content as the for-the-love-of-cookies.com site.

    Now, at this point, you can test what I shared on the test site first, build confidence, and then repeat those steps on the original for-the-love-of-cookies.com site.

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