So you want the archive to NOT show the actual articles.

You want the month links to go to /news/posts/2014/june/

Is that correct?

I would like it to display like this: http://www.beattiegroup.com/aboutour-pragency/prnews-m04-y2014.aspx

on this website you can see that April has 2 posts. when you click the April button on the left, it displays the title and summary of those 2 posts.

You basically want this:

@for (index = 0; index < nodes.Count(); )
{
    var node = nodes[index];

    var date = DateTime.Parse(node.GetValue("uBlogsyPostDate"));
    var currentYear = date.Year;

    if (firstYear == -1) { firstYear = currentYear; }

    var yearClass = "uBlogsy_year";
    if (currentYear == firstYear) { yearClass += " uBlogsy_year_first"; }

    // render years-months-items
    <li class="@yearClass"><a class="uBlogsy_year_name" href="#"><span>@currentYear</span></a>
        @*render year name*@
        <ul class="uBlogsy_months">
            @for (; index < nodes.Count(); index++)
            {
                node = nodes[index];
                date = DateTime.Parse(node.GetValue("uBlogsyPostDate"));
                var currentMonth = date.Month;

                if (date.Year != currentYear) { break; }

                var monthLink = "/news/posts/"+ currentYear + "/" + currentMonth;
                // render month
                <li class="uBlogsy_month">
                    <a class="uBlogsy_month_name" href="@monthLink">
                        <span>@DateHelper.GetMonthName(currentMonth, false)</span>
                    </a>@*render month name*@
                </li>
            }
        </ul>
    </li>
}

Thank for this code to make the link go to /news/posts/2014/june/ for example.

But when i go to that url it shows the last post from that month.  How do i make it use my new tample layout where it will show a list of pages like the example link i gave before? I cant work out how to get the URL to know to use a different template. I see in the templates there is a Small="0" which means it will show the whole post or Small="1" which will show a list like Latest post does. But how do i make these links use a Small="2" for example which displays a list with titles and Summaries?

you can probably just change the allowed templates of the month doctype to use the ublogsy landing template.

And add this to the macroscript

 else if (@Parameter.Small == "2")
    {

        IEnumerable<DynamicNode> posts = Model.DescendantsOrSelf("uBlogsyPost");

var postCount = posts.Count();
           
        // show each post
        foreach (DynamicNode n in nodes)
        {
            @RenderPage("/macroScripts/uBlogsy/uBlogsyShowPost.cshtml", n.Id)
        }
    }

How would uBlogsy know to use that when you click a link which looks like "/news/posts/2014/june/" that it doesnt go to the last post of that month but instead go to our new parameter of Small="2" and display it that way?

You need to change the template in the backoffice for the folder doctypes to just use the landing page template.

of course. Thank you so much.

Just incase anyone wants to see how i got this to work. This is the code for the page uBlogsyListPostArchive.cshtml. I then created a new template dedicated for the MonthFolder to change the look and feel of what would be shown.

@for (int j = DateTime.Now.Year; j >= (DateTime.Now.Year - 5); j--)
            {
                string yearClass = "uBlogsy_year";

                var allpostforyearnumber = (from p in nodes
                                             where p.GetPropertyValue("uBlogsyPostDate") != String.Empty &&
                                             DateTime.Parse(p.GetPropertyValue("uBlogsyPostDate")).Year == j
                                             select p.GetPropertyValue("uBlogsyPostDate")).ToList();

                if (allpostforyearnumber.Count > 0)
                {
                    // render years-months-items
                    <li class="@yearClass">
                        <a class="uBlogsy_year_name second-level-link" href="#">@j.ToString()</a> @*render year name*@
                        <ul class="uBlogsy_months nav-drop-level-2">
                            @{

                                //Loop around each month in a year
                                for (int i = 12; i >= 1; i--)
                                {

                                    //Get article count for that month

                                    var allpostformonthnumber = (from p in nodes
                                                                 where p.GetPropertyValue("uBlogsyPostDate") != String.Empty &&
                                                                       DateTime.Parse(p.GetPropertyValue("uBlogsyPostDate")).Month == i &&
                                                                       DateTime.Parse(p.GetPropertyValue("uBlogsyPostDate")).Year == j
                                                                 select p.GetPropertyValue("uBlogsyPostDate")).ToList();

                                    //If greater than zero show list item and display count
                                    if (allpostformonthnumber.Count > 0)
                                    {
                                        var urlText = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(i) + " (" + allpostformonthnumber.Count.ToString() + ")";
                                        var monthLink = "/news/posts/" + j.ToString() + "/" + CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(i);
                                        <li class="uBlogsy_month">
                                            <a class="uBlogsy_month_name third-level-link" href="@monthLink">@urlText</a>@*render month name*@    

                                        </li>
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        </ul>
                    </li>
                }
            }

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