Congrats on choosing b2evo. It sounds like a good choice for your site.

Regarding your questions:

1) Adding older entries - No problem here. Simply add the entry you want and modify the entry date in the back office (either the write or edit tabs). Why put the old stuff all on one date? Why not put each to the date it should be? (You could use the file date in as the "old date", which is probably the only date reference you have).

2) The URL for each entry is permanent, BUT it behooves you to select a method that works best. The "default" installation of b2evolution makes the "permalink" (permanent link to each entry) in the form of http://yoursite.com/index.php?title=post_title&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&more=1 (which is kind of ugly). In the back office, under the "Settings" -> "General" tab, you can change this to "nicer looking" Links, by checking "Use extra-path info" (then selecting the permalink type you prefer, though the first one "by URL title" is recommended and it's what we use). It'll turn that link above to - http://yoursite.com/index.php/2006/MO/DA/post_title (or something close)

NOW ... you'll have PERMANENT links to EACH entry (and they'll look dashing too).

Note - the nice URLs don't work so nice on Windows Hosts, so make sure your hosting service uses a Linus/Unix O/S, instead.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Thanks for the info - as long as the URL is static I should be fine. I just now tried enabling the "Use Extra Path Info" option, but it did not work with any of the permalink options (just resulted in a 'file not found" error when I tried to click into the archives.) So I assume my server does not support it.

As for the dates - checking the file date stamp is a good suggestion, though I thought it might be more convenient to lump all this material together. There's only a handful of eassys but some go back a ways - I assume there's no limit on how far back the post can be back dated? At least one of these goes back to 1997. :-)

Thanks again!

- MCC

Great photos ... my kind of subject matter. You got me beat by two years. ;)

Ummm ... there is no limit to back dating, that I am aware. I was actually entertaining the idea of a compendium of entries, back to pre-JFK days and didn't worry for one minute that b2evo wouldn't be able to handle it. (Not that I've TRIED yet, though).

Computer start date is 1970 (programming often uses this as 000), so I'm not sure if backdating BEFORE that would be a problem, but certainly, 1997 is well after that, so no worries.

Too bad about the Extra Path Info, it really does make better looking and shorter URLs, but no matter ... the others are just as valid, just as permanent.

Cheers,

Thanks again! Looks like I can go all the way back to the original dates.