Weird Calendar in Roller 2.3

[Alexandre Bosserelle <le...@gmail.com>]

Dear all,

I'm currently using roller 2.3.

I noticed a weird comportment which could be bad for bots indexing
(problem related to the issue described on the message "Weird google
comportment (not sure it's related to Roller, but...)" posted on this
list)

Indeed, the default calendar displayed on the main page shows 2 arrows
around the label of the month, that allow the visitor to navigate to
posts of a previous or next month.

When the calendar displays the current month, it's OK, there is no
arrow to go to the future (for instance, when displaying the calendar
Nov 2006, there is no arrow on the right side to go to December 2006
because no post have been already posted at that time, and of course,
we are not yet in December).
BUT it always displays an arrow to go on the previous month, even if
no post has been made !
That's a big issue because Google follows those links and try to index
the content of "inexisting" pages (for instance, I made my first post
on November 2006; the calendar displays a link to see post of October
2006, though it doesn't exist, and can go back to take a look to the
past).
I noticed Google Bot trying to indexing content made on 1970 !!!!!

Is there a way to block the left arrow displayed on the left of a
Month in the calendar if no post has never been posted before the
month displayed ? If so, How ?
Have you encountered this issue ? How do you solve it ?

Any help will really be appreciated,

Thanks in advance,

Alexandre

Re: Weird Calendar in Roller 2.3

[Dave <sn...@gmail.com>]

Yes. That's a bug. If there are no previous entries then the calendar
should not show a previous link. It's a usability problem and a spider
trap.

Here's the relevant issue: "Roller calendar is spider trap"
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1145

- Dave



On 11/29/06, Shutra Zhou <zh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But the previous date that with no blog, I think this is a 'enhanced' level
> bug  that can be fixed.
>
> 2006/11/30, Shutra Zhou <zh...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Yes, blog is a history, to the coming date is not necessary as you never
> > write a web log in the future days.
> >
>
>

Re: Weird Calendar in Roller 2.3

[Shutra Zhou <zh...@gmail.com>]

I think start the date in calendar from the blog created date.

2006/11/30, Alexandre Bosserelle <le...@gmail.com>:
>
> Thank you very much for this precision,
> Do I have to forward this request to roller-dev for a future improvment ?
> Regards,
> Alexandre
>
> On 11/29/06, Shutra Zhou <zh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > But the previous date that with no blog, I think this is a 'enhanced'
> level
> > bug  that can be fixed.
> >
> > 2006/11/30, Shutra Zhou <zh...@gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > Yes, blog is a history, to the coming date is not necessary as you
> never
> > > write a web log in the future days.
> > >
> >
> >
>

Re: Weird Calendar in Roller 2.3

[Alexandre Bosserelle <le...@gmail.com>]

Thank you very much for this precision,
Do I have to forward this request to roller-dev for a future improvment ?
Regards,
Alexandre

On 11/29/06, Shutra Zhou <zh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But the previous date that with no blog, I think this is a 'enhanced' level
> bug  that can be fixed.
>
> 2006/11/30, Shutra Zhou <zh...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Yes, blog is a history, to the coming date is not necessary as you never
> > write a web log in the future days.
> >
>
>

Re: Weird Calendar in Roller 2.3

[Shutra Zhou <zh...@gmail.com>]

But the previous date that with no blog, I think this is a 'enhanced' level
bug  that can be fixed.

2006/11/30, Shutra Zhou <zh...@gmail.com>:
>
> Yes, blog is a history, to the coming date is not necessary as you never
> write a web log in the future days.
>

Re: Weird Calendar in Roller 2.3

[Shutra Zhou <zh...@gmail.com>]

Yes, blog is a history, to the coming date is not necessary as you never
write a web log in the future days.