The Real Blogger Status

One of the most useful accessories for listing posts, in a blog, is the Archives retrieval gadget. Titled "Blog Archive" in " Add a Gadget ", the archive gadget provides an automatically updated index of all blog posts, sequenced by date. It is an enhanced version of the first accessory for Blogger blogs, provided when the blog home page was previously no more than the most recent post.

Occasionally, we see a request from somebody who wants to publish a blog with historically significant dates, which precede Blogger compatible dates. In one case, we see a request in Blogger Help Forum: Learn More About Blogger , about writing a blog, as "published" in the 1960s. I'm doing a History project, and I'm blogging as if I was in the 1960's. I was excited to see that I could change that date - but soon realized that it won't let me go back further than 1970. Unfortunately, blog dates will go back no farther than 1970.

I renamed My Archives to "Contents". I've never liked the term "Archive", as I have always thought of "archives" as "stuff that you stashed away somewhere because it's probably useless", an intermediate trash can. The stuff in my blog isn't that. At least, I don't think so. So where is all of the stuff that I posted last month? One example. So where are all of my posts? OK, there's this months. And there's last months. A second example. The archive list, opened to June 2007. Click on the black arrow, left of "2015". See the black arrow, pointing to the right, located left of "2015"? Click on that arrow - and watch. The archive list, opened to 2015. Click on the black arrow, left of "December". The archive list, opened to December 2015. Just click on the little black arrows, and all can be seen.