Question

I want to do something like this:

Entries.objects.values('date.year','date.month')

but this line is not valid. How can I list blog entries by year,month and display them in template?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you set

entry_list = Entry.objects.order_by('pub_date')

in your view, you can display the months and years in the template using the ifchanged template tag.

{% for entry in entry_list %}
{% ifchanged %}<h3>{{entry.pub_date|date:"Y"}}</h3>{% endifchanged %}
{% ifchanged %}<h4>{{entry.pub_date|date:"F"}}</h4>{% endifchanged %}
<p>{{entry.title}}</p>
{% endfor %}

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Another useful Django queryset method for blog archives is dates.

For example

entry_months = Entry.objects.dates('pub_date','month','DESC')

returns a DateQuerySet of datetime.datetime objects for each month that has Blog Entries. You can use this queryset in the template to create links to monthly archive pages.