Butrfly's Wonderings

Re: Removing/Archiving Stale-Dated Posts from "Current Posts" Page
Well if I understand the problem correctly it's that there are too many posts showing on the Main page correct?

This will be in the blogger settings. You're right about the template will not affect this in any way.

Log into Blogger>Dashboard>Settings>Formatting and the first option on the page is
Show X X on the main page

The xx's can be filled out in two ways, either by number of posts or number of days.

Put in what you want. Save at the bottom of the page. Republish the blog.

This SHOULD change what blogger puts on the main page.

Just another note-about the archiving. If you have archiving enabled...posts aren't moved from the main page to the archives when a certain time elapses...they can be on both at the same time.

When a new post is made it's added to the main page, and it's also added to the appropiate archive page.

When time/number of posts elapses (based on the settings above) and that post gets kicked off the main page it will continue to reside on the archive page....if that makes sense. This behaviour is not really changeable.


The most important thing I think is your main page settings I described first. See what they are and change accordingly and that should resolve the issue.

Re: Removing/Archiving Stale-Dated Posts from "Current Posts" Page
Hi Redryder,

Thanks for responding. You understand the description of the problem.

My Blogger>Dashboard>Settings>Formatting and Show X X on the main page option is currently set to 30 days.

I changed it to 5 posts and republished. This in fact does remove stale-dated posts from the main page as I desire. I changed the setting back to 30 days and republished again and am returned to the overabundant state originally creating the problem.

I guess the problem is my expectation that "30 days" is the last 30 calendar days while Blogger's settings is defining it as the last 30 days of posts. So, if it takes 5 years to accumulate posts from 30 individual days, that is what is shown. Silly me to expect something so commonplace as a calendared utility. LOL!

Okay, I can solve this by changing the number of individual posts to be displayed and ignoring the number of days.

It never occurred to me that the definition of 30 days would be so literal. They create the archive index links on a calendar basis but don't use the same logic when displaying the posts.

Unless you can think of a work around to make the 30-day calendar option work, consider the problem bandaided.

posted by Lynn  # 6:20 PM