Archives, Redux

Views does almost what it should. There doesn't seem to be support for nesting lists, which I was looking for. It refuses to create a nested list (below). JQuery and AJAX could've done a great job of theming that into an accordian menu.

  • 2012
    • Oct
    • Nov
    • Dec
  • 2013
    • Jan
    • Mar
    • Apr

Instead, I need to choose between a MM/YYYY view:

Nov 2012

Dec 2012

Jan 2013

Or a page with just years:

2012

2013

That links to months:

Jan

Feb

Mar

None of those are quite what I wanted. Contextual filters were perfect, but don't work on the front page. A taxonomy that contains publish date looks impossible. I would up using a module that creates tabs to manually display the posts for months of that year.

It's a very dirty solution, though. I need to manually create a tab for each year. I'll see if I can do better.

Edit: Whelp. I'm really tired of messing around with that. I themed the Quicktabs block a bit, which is all right. I also created an Archive view with the URL path I wanted: nitkin.net/archives/2012/6 shows all posts from June 2012, and nitkin.net/archives/2012 does exactly what it should. Go with what you can.