Keyvan Nayyeri

In my new EliteCircle theme, I moved my monthly archive from sidebar to a separate page because as long as my blog is getting older, it's getting longer and can't fit into sidebar easily.

Creating an archive page for Community Server blogs is very easy but it's not included by default.  All you need to do is adding a new Archive.aspx page to your blog theme folder with appropriate content.

First step is to create an empty Archive.aspx file.  Second step is adding your blog master page to this page to keep consistency.  Also you need to add some references to this page and set its title.

Rather than doing above steps manually, I can recommend you to choose one of other pages from your blog theme, remove its content and keep its headers and references.  For example, this is the page header, references and Page_Load method for my EliteCircle archive page:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" EnableViewState="False"
    MasterPageFile="~/Themes/Blogs/elitecircle/theme.Master"
    Inherits="CommunityServer.Blogs.Controls.CSBlogThemePage" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="CommunityServer.Components" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="CommunityServer.Blogs.Components" %>

<script runat="Server">
    void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SetTitle("Archive");
    }
</script>

Probably you know what the last step is!  Yes, you put an ArchiveDataItemList Chameleon control inside your page ContentPlaceHolder to show archive items.

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="Main" runat="Server">
    <div>
        <CSBlog:ArchiveDataItemList ID="ArchiveDataItemList1" runat="Server">
            <LeaderTemplate>
                <h1>
                Archive</h1>
            </LeaderTemplate>
        </CSBlog:ArchiveDataItemList>
    </div>
</asp:Content>

And now, you have an archive page!