How to make an archive

[pwired]

Hi I want to make a website with articles. But there has to be an archive where visitors of the website can go into the archive and look for older articles and subjects. Most likely there will be an obvious solution for this but I never made an archive and don't know how to set it up. Thanks in advance.

[diogo]

The blog profile has an archive. Did you look there?

[Soma]

Add a title "Archive" and output all articles minus the newest.

[pwired]

 Add a title "Archive" and output all articles minus the newest.

Hi Soma, are you referring to the blog profile mentioned by Diogo ?

[SiNNuT]

I haven't used it myself but there's also http://modules.processwire.com/modules/process-date-archiver/ if that something you were looking for. Personally i find the notion of an archive in the web world a bit confusing, because most sites are already archives in itself.

[pwired]

Personally i find the notion of an archive in the web world a bit confusing, because most sites in itself are already archives in itself.

Technically spoken you are right, but for a visitor of the website a button that clearly says archive and connects to a huge list of sorted subjects and older articles saved somehow in an archive does make it more organized, faster accessible, look better and will be better maintainable. Thanks for the link to that module.

Also thanks diogo and soma for your tips.