weblog.lol: divide post list on edit screen into collapsable years

[bixfrankonis]

Basically I’m thinking about each year is hidden/revealed by a chevron using JavaScript, with maybe the current year open by default or something. For those whose post lists will grow unwieldy in the editing backend.

[newbold]

It would be super easy to hard-code this, but I want to try to preserve the flexibility you get from the configuration templates. So I’m thinking of something along those lines:

Post list format: <<[
[year:begin]<h3>$year</h3>
<ul>
	[post:begin]<li><a href="$location">$title</a></li>[post:end]
</ul>
[year:end]
]>>

Or even month and year:

Post list format: <<[
[year:begin]<h3>$year</h3>
[month:begin]<h4>$month</h4>
<ul>
	[post:begin]<li><a href="$location">$title</a></li>[post:end]
</ul>
[year:end]
[month:end]
]>>

And of course with this approach, you’d be in full control over the specific output, markup, classes/IDs, etc. and that would allow for a ton of flexibility in the custom JS (for a progressive disclosure approach like you described), unique CSS, or really anything at all.

I’ll see if I can figure out a way to do this. It looks like the kind of thing that should be simple, but I just gave it a go, and... it was not simple. Will provide an update soon!

[bixfrankonis]

Sorry, to clarify, I mean on the backend beneath the post editor.

[newbold]

Oh! OK, yeah, that’s much easier to do! Stay tuned.