Thursday, February 16, 2006

When should I start to worry about archiving

While I realize I still have a way to go - I just have 177 posts to date - but when I want to "hide" individual recipes and the recipe link page to much earlier I change the date for them to last summer. But I can only go back 300 posts in edit mode. What will happen when I hit 300?

I've spent more than a week just redoing the 2006 posts and separating the recipe from the post. Before it gets too long and involved what should I do -or am I fine and have to do nothing?

Thanks for any insights here.

4 comments:

Joe said...

Ruth - I wondered the same thing, so when I need to find the recipes to link to I just use the search box in the edit posts page to pull up the title of the recipe and that has worked fine so far!

Alanna Kellogg said...

Not to worry, there's a way to extend the edit list. This comes from Blogger help: "On the Edit Posts page, you can only view a blog's 300 most-recent posts. Until we get this fixed, you can append &selNumPosts=XXX to the end of the URL, where XXX = the number of posts you'd like to display. Note, however, that you can always find old posts to edit by using the search feature on the Edit Posts page, or the quick edit links from your archives."

Ruth Daniels said...

Thank you both so much - one less thing to worry about.

Marc said...

Being a bit nervous about a freeze-up after I click "Save as Draft", "Post", (or even "Send Mail" in some programs), I got into the habit of copying the html version of my post to an archive file. When the post is finished, or I'm done with a draft, it is as simple as Control-A, Control-C, Alt-Tab (to the archive file), and Control-V to make the archive. Note that you need to be in the html mode to capture the links and so forth.