Restructuring
I have, after much thinking, decided to restructure the archiving format. Unfortunately, this will have the side effects of making my permalinks, well, unpermalinks. Sorry about that, but it’s for A Good Cause™.
The new format will be “/trashcan/62/” where 62 is the MTEntryID of the entry.
This is a much better system, in my opinion. Shorter URL and easier format makes it easier to remember. I’ll rewrite the daily archive template I used to describe the change and point to the new URL – thank $deity for the powerful templates of MT. This entry will serve as a test bed before I rebuild the entire site.
For the record, I should have gone to bed an hour ago…
Update: well, it’s more or less done. All that’s left to do is to add comments and trackbacks for the individual entry archive template, but that will have to wait. After that, I’ll rebuild and we’re all set. Now, off to bed I go.
Updated update: Done. And on the seventh rebuild, he rested.
December 18th, 2002 at 18:21
I’m thinking about doing something similar to that myself.
Btw, you needn’t break your permalinks, just use apache mod_rewrite to “translate” the urls.
Here’s how: http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php?pid=0&aid=910
December 19th, 2002 at 03:05
I solved it in a slightly less elegant way: I made a template using the daily archive for MT that explained what has happened, and gave the new links for all entries that used to be on that page.
December 20th, 2002 at 19:39
ah, tomas beat me to it. your new archives are easy to translate using mod_rewrite. i wrote a small PHP script to replace my 404 page since my archives changed from /id.html to /yyyy/mm/dd/title_of_entry.php. never leave your visitors out in the cold!