Chyrp Drop-down Archive List

Since I have a fixed positioned sidebar in this site, the archive list was growing and gradually not completely visible on smaller screens, I had to find a workaround and still keep it consistent on this site.

So I modified the theme and still display the archives where they are right now, and I came up with a simple drop-down option. Here's how you can do it too.

Using Chyrp's Aggregate Module

Chyrp's Aggregate Module is über-awesome! Here's how easily you could pull say your Twitter Feed in Chyrp.

Navigate to Extend and Enable Aggregator Module, go to Manage > Aggregates, click Add Aggregate. Fields should be filled accordingly, here's a preview of my Twitter Feed.

!http://xhezairi.com/uploads/chyrp_add_aggregate.png(Chyrp Add Aggregate)!

Let me explain what each field is about. * Name - name of your feed for you to distinguish. * Source URL - the ATOM or RSS URL of the feed to fetch. * Feather - type of post to create. * Author - you know, normally it's you. * Post Attributes - there's only so much things you can do here and it's relevant to the chosen Feather. In this case, the Quote Feather has two attributes; source and quote. My Twitter username is on the first, and the content of my tweet as the quote itself. Note the "call:substr(feed[title] || 13)" is the parts I want to trim, because the feed[title] returns the tweet together with the username. So you can cut that part out. Number 13 is the length of the username, and it should have been 14 in order to hide the ':' but it is so for the sake of the argument.

Once that is filled in, hit Add Aggregate and new posts of type Quote should be created having your tweets as content.

The feed settings would normally be set in config.yaml.php like so:

aggregates: 
  Twitter: 
    url: "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/18228003.rss"
    last_updated: 1323557875
    feather: "quote"
    author: 1
    data: 
      source: "[arianxhezairi](http://twitter.com/#!/arianxhezairi)"
      quote: "call:substr(feed[title] || 13)"

That should normally do the work. Happy aggregating! "Let me know(@arianxhezairi)":http://twitter.com/arianxhezairi if you can't work it out, I'm always glad to help.