# yeararchives - Builds year-based archives listing....

## Summary

Walks through your blog root figuring out all the available years for the archives list. It stores the years with links to year summaries in the variable `$(archivelinks)`. You should put this variable in either your head or foot template.

## Install

This plugin comes with Pyblosxom. To install, do the following:

1. Add `Pyblosxom.plugins.yeararchives` to the `load_plugins` list in your `config.py` file.
2. Add `$(archivelinks)` to your head and/or foot templates.
3. Configure as documented below.

## Usage

When the user clicks on one of the year links (e.g. `http://base_url/2004/`), then yeararchives will display a summary page for that year. The summary is generated using the `yearsummarystory` template for each month in the year.

My `yearsummarystory` template looks like this:

    <div class="blosxomEntry">
    <span class="blosxomTitle">$title</span>
    <div class="blosxomBody">
    <table>
    $body
    </table>
    </div>
    </div>

The `$(archivelinks)` link can be configured with the `archive_template` config variable. It uses the Python string formatting syntax.

Example:

    py['archive_template'] = (
        '<a href="%(base_url)s/%(Y)s/index.%(f)s">'
        '%(Y)s</a><br />')

The vars available with typical example values are:

    Y      4-digit year   ex: '1978'
    y      2-digit year   ex: '78'
    f      the flavour    ex: 'html'

Note

The `archive_template` variable value is formatted using Python string formatting rules–not Pyblosxom template rules!

## License

Plugin is distributed under license: MIT