Add A Blogger Archive Calendar Widget For Blogger - 2 Themes

As you know that most famous Archive Calendar widgets available on WordPress which displays links to your posts by date which is rarely seen in a Blogger blog.I came across a tutorial for converting a standard blog archive widget into a blog archive calendar widget.

This script is coded by phydeaux3.Thanks to phydeaux3 as we now have this widget for Blogger too and redesigned by MBT.The plugin has been made compatible and easy to implement. For Adding Archive Calendar Widget on Your Blogger Just follow the basic steps below.

Add Archive Calendar Widget on Your Blogger

Go To Blogger > Layout
Now Add Widget
Chose Blog Archive widget which is available in Blogger's default widget directory. Switch to next page in the directory to find it.

Now Choose the following options as shown in the screenshot.
Choose style as Flat list. Uncheck "Show Oldest Posts First", choose archive Frequency as Monthlyand Date Format can be set to anything.

Now Click on save
Now go to Blogger > Settings > Template.
Before EDIT HTML Backup your template and then clickEdit HTML > Proceed
Search the following code:

<b:widget id='BlogArchive1' locked='false' title='Blog Archive' type='BlogArchive'/>

Now Replace the above code with the following code:

<b:widget id='BlogArchive1' locked='false' title='Blog Archive' type='BlogArchive'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
    <h2><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<div id='ArchiveList'>
<div expr:id='data:widget.instanceId + "_ArchiveList"'>
    <b:if cond='data:style == "HIERARCHY"'>
     <b:include data='data' name='interval'/>
    </b:if>
    <b:if cond='data:style == "FLAT"'>
      <b:include data='data' name='flat'/>
    </b:if>
    <b:if cond='data:style == "MENU"'>
      <b:include data='data' name='menu'/>
    </b:if>
</div>
</div>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>
</b:includable>
<b:includable id='toggle' var='interval'>

</b:includable>
<b:includable id='flat' var='data'>
<div id='bloggerCalendarList'>
<ul>
    <b:loop values='data:data' var='i'>
      <li class='archivedate'>
        <a expr:href='data:i.url'><data:i.name/></a> (<data:i.post-count/>)
      </li>
    </b:loop>
</ul>
</div>
<div id='blogger_calendar' style='display:none'>
<table id='bcalendar'><caption id='bcaption'>
</caption>

<thead id='bcHead'></thead>


<tbody><tr><td id='cell1'> </td><td id='cell2'> </td><td id='cell3'> </td><td id='cell4'> </td><td id='cell5'> </td><td id='cell6'> </td><td id='cell7'> </td></tr>
<tr><td id='cell8'> </td><td id='cell9'> </td><td id='cell10'> </td><td id='cell11'> </td><td id='cell12'> </td><td id='cell13'> </td><td id='cell14'> </td></tr>
<tr><td id='cell15'> </td><td id='cell16'> </td><td id='cell17'> </td><td id='cell18'> </td><td id='cell19'> </td><td id='cell20'> </td><td id='cell21'> </td></tr>
<tr><td id='cell22'> </td><td id='cell23'> </td><td id='cell24'> </td><td id='cell25'> </td><td id='cell26'> </td><td id='cell27'> </td><td id='cell28'> </td></tr>
<tr><td id='cell29'> </td><td id='cell30'> </td><td id='cell31'> </td><td id='cell32'> </td><td id='cell33'> </td><td id='cell34'> </td><td id='cell35'> </td></tr>
<tr id='lastRow'><td id='cell36'> </td><td id='cell37'> </td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table id='bcNavigation'><tr>
<td id='bcFootPrev'></td>
<td id='bcFootAll'></td>
<td id='bcFootNext'></td>
</tr></table>
<div id='calLoadingStatus' style='display:none; text-align:center;'>
<script type='text/javascript'>bcLoadStatus();</script>
</div>
<div id='calendarDisplay'/>
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'> initCal();</script>
</b:includable>
<b:includable id='posts' var='posts'>

</b:includable>
<b:includable id='menu' var='data'>
Configure your calendar archive widget - Edit archive widget - Flat List - Newest first - Choose any Month/Year Format
</b:includable>
<b:includable id='interval' var='intervalData'>
Configure your calendar archive widget - Edit archive widget - Flat List - Newest first - Choose any Month/Year Format
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

Now search </head> and just above it paste the following lines of code:

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
var bcLoadingImage = "http://mybloggertricks.googlecode.com/files/loading-trans.gif.png";
var bcLoadingMessage = " Loading....";
var bcArchiveNavText = "View Archive";
var bcArchiveNavPrev = '◄';
var bcArchiveNavNext = '►';
var headDays = ["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"];
var headInitial = ["Su","Mo","Tu","We","Th","Fr","Sa"];
// Nothing to configure past this point ----------------------------------
var timeOffset;
var bcBlogID;
var calMonth;
var calDay = 1;
var calYear;
var startIndex;
var callmth;
var bcNav = new Array ();
var bcList = new Array ();
//Initialize Fill Array
var fill = ["","31","28","31","30","31","30","31","31","30","31","30","31"];
function openStatus(){
   document.getElementById('calLoadingStatus').style.display = 'block';
   document.getElementById('calendarDisplay').innerHTML = '';
}
function closeStatus(){
   document.getElementById('calLoadingStatus').style.display = 'none';
}
function bcLoadStatus(){
   cls = document.getElementById('calLoadingStatus');
   img = document.createElement('img');
   img.src = bcLoadingImage;
   img.style.verticalAlign = 'middle';
   cls.appendChild(img);
   txt = document.createTextNode(bcLoadingMessage);
   cls.appendChild(txt);
}
function callArchive(mth,yr,nav){
// Check for Leap Years
if (((yr % 4 == 0) && (yr % 100 != 0)) || (yr % 400 == 0)) {
      fill[2] = '29';
   }
else {
      fill[2] = '28';
   }
   calMonth = mth;
   calYear = yr;
   if(mth.charAt(0) == 0){
      calMonth = mth.substring(1);
      }
   callmth = mth;
   bcNavAll = document.getElementById('bcFootAll');
   bcNavPrev = document.getElementById('bcFootPrev');
   bcNavNext = document.getElementById('bcFootNext');
   bcSelect = document.getElementById('bcSelection');
   a = document.createElement('a');
   at = document.createTextNode(bcArchiveNavText);
   a.href = bcNav[nav];
   a.appendChild(at);
   bcNavAll.innerHTML = '';
   bcNavAll.appendChild(a);
   bcNavPrev.innerHTML = '';
   bcNavNext.innerHTML = '';
   if(nav < bcNav.length -1){
      a = document.createElement('a');
      a.innerHTML = bcArchiveNavPrev;
      bcp = parseInt(nav,10) + 1;
      a.href = bcNav[bcp];
      a.title = 'Previous Archive';
      prevSplit = bcList[bcp].split(',');
      a.onclick = function(){bcSelect.options[bcp].selected = true;openStatus();callArchive(prevSplit[0],prevSplit[1],prevSplit[2]);return false;};
      bcNavPrev.appendChild(a);
      }
   if(nav > 0){
      a = document.createElement('a');
      a.innerHTML = bcArchiveNavNext;
      bcn = parseInt(nav,10) - 1;
      a.href = bcNav[bcn];
      a.title = 'Next Archive';
      nextSplit = bcList[bcn].split(',');
      a.onclick = function(){bcSelect.options[bcn].selected = true;openStatus();callArchive(nextSplit[0],nextSplit[1],nextSplit[2]);return false;};
      bcNavNext.appendChild(a);
     }
   script = document.createElement('script');
   script.src = 'http://www.blogger.com/feeds/'+bcBlogId+'/posts/summary?published-max='+calYear+'-'+callmth+'-'+fill[calMonth]+'T23%3A59%3A59'+timeOffset+'&published-min='+calYear+'-'+callmth+'-01T00%3A00%3A00'+timeOffset+'&max-results=100&orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=cReadArchive';
   document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);
}
function cReadArchive(root){
// Check for Leap Years
if (((calYear % 4 == 0) && (calYear % 100 != 0)) || (calYear % 400 == 0)) {
      fill[2] = '29';
   }
else {
      fill[2] = '28';
   }
    closeStatus();
    document.getElementById('lastRow').style.display = 'none';
    calDis = document.getElementById('calendarDisplay');
    var feed = root.feed;
    var total = feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t;
    var entries = feed.entry || [];
    var fillDate = new Array();
    var fillTitles = new Array();
    fillTitles.length = 32;
    var ul = document.createElement('ul');
    ul.id = 'calendarUl';
    for (var i = 0; i < feed.entry.length; ++i) {
      var entry = feed.entry[i];
      for (var j = 0; j < entry.link.length; ++j) {
       if (entry.link[j].rel == "alternate") {
       var link = entry.link[j].href;
       }
      }
      var title = entry.title.$t;
      var author = entry.author[0].name.$t;
      var date = entry.published.$t;
      var summary = entry.summary.$t;
      isPublished = date.split('T')[0].split('-')[2];
      if(isPublished.charAt(0) == '0'){
         isPublished = isPublished.substring(1);
         }
      fillDate.push(isPublished);
      if (fillTitles[isPublished]){
          fillTitles[isPublished] = fillTitles[isPublished] + ' | ' + title;
          }
      else {
          fillTitles[isPublished] = title;
          }
      li = document.createElement('li');
      li.style.listType = 'none';
      li.innerHTML = '<a href="'+link+'">'+title+'</a>';
      ul.appendChild(li);
      }
   calDis.appendChild(ul);
   var val1 = parseInt(calDay, 10)
   var valxx = parseInt(calMonth, 10);
   var val2 = valxx - 1;
   var val3 = parseInt(calYear, 10);
   var firstCalDay = new Date(val3,val2,1);
   var val0 = firstCalDay.getDay();
   startIndex = val0 + 1;
var dayCount = 1;
for (x =1; x < 38; x++){
      var cell = document.getElementById('cell'+x);
      if( x < startIndex){
          cell.innerHTML = ' ';
          cell.className = 'firstCell';
         }
      if( x >= startIndex){
          cell.innerHTML = dayCount;
          cell.className = 'filledCell';
          for(p = 0; p < fillDate.length; p++){
              if(dayCount == fillDate[p]){
                  if(fillDate[p].length == 1){
                     fillURL = '0'+fillDate[p];
                     }
                  else {
                     fillURL = fillDate[p];
                     }
                  cell.className = 'highlightCell';
                  cell.innerHTML = '<a href="/search?updated-max='+calYear+'-'+callmth+'-'+fillURL+'T23%3A59%3A59'+timeOffset+'&updated-min='+calYear+'-'+callmth+'-'+fillURL+'T00%3A00%3A00'+timeOffset+'" title="'+fillTitles[fillDate[p]].replace(/"/g,'\'')+'">'+dayCount+'</a>';
                 }
              }
          if( dayCount > fill[valxx]){
             cell.innerHTML = ' ';
             cell.className = 'emptyCell';
             }
          dayCount++;
         }
      }
    visTotal = parseInt(startIndex) + parseInt(fill[valxx]) -1;
    if(visTotal >35){
        document.getElementById('lastRow').style.display = '';
       }
}
function initCal(){
   document.getElementById('blogger_calendar').style.display = 'block';
   var bcInit = document.getElementById('bloggerCalendarList').getElementsByTagName('a');
   var bcCount = document.getElementById('bloggerCalendarList').getElementsByTagName('li');
   document.getElementById('bloggerCalendarList').style.display = 'none';
   calHead = document.getElementById('bcHead');
   tr = document.createElement('tr');
   for(t = 0; t < 7; t++){
       th = document.createElement('th');
       th.abbr = headDays[t];
       scope = 'col';
       th.title = headDays[t];
       th.innerHTML = headInitial[t];
       tr.appendChild(th);
      }
   calHead.appendChild(tr);
for (x = 0; x <bcInit.length;x++){
     var stripYear= bcInit[x].href.split('_')[0].split('/')[3];
     var stripMonth = bcInit[x].href.split('_')[1];
     bcList.push(stripMonth + ','+ stripYear + ',' + x);
     bcNav.push(bcInit[x].href);
     }
var sel = document.createElement('select');
sel.id = 'bcSelection';
sel.onchange = function(){var cSend = this.options[this.selectedIndex].value.split(',');openStatus();callArchive(cSend[0],cSend[1],cSend[2]);};
q = 0;
for (r = 0; r <bcList.length; r++){
       var selText = bcInit[r].innerHTML;
       var selCount = bcCount[r].innerHTML.split('> (')[1];
       var selValue = bcList[r];
       sel.options[q] = new Option(selText + ' ('+selCount,selValue);
       q++
       }
   document.getElementById('bcaption').appendChild(sel);
   var m = bcList[0].split(',')[0];
   var y = bcList[0].split(',')[1];
   callArchive(m,y,'0');
}
function timezoneSet(root){
   var feed = root.feed;
   var updated = feed.updated.$t;
   var id = feed.id.$t;
   bcBlogId = id.split('blog-')[1];
   upLength = updated.length;
   if(updated.charAt(upLength-1) == "Z"){timeOffset = "+00:00";}
   else {timeOffset = updated.substring(upLength-6,upLength);}
   timeOffset = encodeURIComponent(timeOffset);
}
//]]>
</script>
<script src='/feeds/posts/summary?max-results=0&alt=json-in-script&callback=timezoneSet'></script>