I was looking for a way to add an archive page in blogger. Specifically I had in mind adding the Blog Archive gadget to a page. From the google searches I did I found this article from bloggerbuster on
Creating an Archives Page in Blogger. It's a good post, and the archive page looks good (better than the Blog Archive gadget), but on the downside it needs to be maintained manually. I was looking for something which updated with new posts automatically.
I eventually found a clever hack posted by
Yoboy on this thread in the Blogger help forum in response to the question
How do I put my archive on it's own page? I found this easy to implement, as you can see on my
Archive page linked in the tab bar above. I thought I'd take a stab at summarizing the steps here, mostly so that next time I change my template, I'll remember how to implement this. Hopefully other people find this approach to adding a dedicated archive page to their Blog easy to follow too.
Here's the steps at a high level
1. Add an empty Archive page to your blog
2. Add the Blog Archive widget just below the Blog Posts widget
3. Modify your template so that the Blog Archive widget is only shown on the Archive page