Question

I’m just trying to list my blog posts for a certain month in a certain year, but none of my posts are showing. When I type in the correct url: 2011/nov, no posts show up and I have Nov. 2011 posts saved in my admin.

Also, for some reason, my css file isn’t being taken into account. When I go to the url, 2011/nov, I just get html with no styling and none of my posts. What am I doing wrong here?

#models.py
class Post(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=120)
    slug = models.SlugField(max_length=120, unique = True)
    body = models.TextField()
    published = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.now)
    categories = models.ManyToManyField(Category)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.title

#urls.py
info_dict = {
    'queryset': Post.objects.all(),
    'date_field': 'published',
}

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$',
    date_based.archive_month,
    dict(info_dict, template_name='blog/archive.html',)),

#blog/archive.html
<link href="../static/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
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.
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{% for post in post_list %}
<h3 class="title"><a href="{% url single_post slug=post.slug %}">{{post.title}}</a>    
</h3>                        
{% endfor %}

Answer 1

1. The CSS is not showing because you define it relatively to be ../static/style.css. When the address is /2011/jan the browser tries to get the css from /2011/static/style.css. Fix: Set the path to be absolute: /static/style.css.

2. You should be looping through object called object_list instead of post_list.

   {% for post in object_list %}