I have a blog section in a drupal website, built with Views. I want to add a sidebar with month navigation (as in each mont is listed with the number of posts, etc). How can I do this, preferably with Views?
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Drupal views can create views which allow you to select and list or summarise lists of nodes by various fields including the date related fields. You can do this by adding an argument, and then setting how the view behaves when no argument is supplied.
Are you looking for something along the following lines?
March 2010 (3)
February 2010 (12)
January 2010 (7)
... etc.
Create a view called Monthly Summary, and add an "argument" 'Node: Created year + month'.
Then use the options on the argument to select the 'action to take if argument is not present'. Select 'Summary, sorted descending' to create list with most recent month at top.
Watch out for sorting issues - this choice of how you sort the monthly summary in the argument settings will override the usual views sort order. This caught me out for a while.
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Have you tried the Date/Calendar modules? Some more details about the Calendar module (from its project page):
This module will display any Views date field in calendar formats, including CCK date fields, node created or updated dates, etc. Switch between year, month, and day views. Back and next navigation is provided for all views. Lots of the Calendar functionality comes from the Date module, so any time you update the Calendar module you should be sure you also update to the latest version of the Date module at the same time.
See also Date iCal, a project that contains code and features needed to either import or export dates using iCal feeds. The functionality that used to be in the Calendar iCal module has been moved into that module.
