The TARDIS is a module that allows users to go back in time and visit nodes from the past. You can see nodes per year and month, using a block that creates links automatically, and an optional page that displays node teasers filtered in the format YYYY/MM.
This module has plenty of options available:
- Custom TARDIS address which can have more than one part, like example.com/recent/nodes.
- Choose between month numbers or names.
- Custom link redirection (if you'd rather link the months in the TARDIS block to your view!)
- Months can be displayed as a nested list, an accordion, or simple month/year titles.
- And more!
Huh. So it's like an archive module?
Good question - glad you asked! The word "archive" is somewhat misleading, since users sometimes think it means "ability to create zipped files". Not this module: it's meant to create lists of nodes organised by year and month. That's why it's named after the real TARDIS from Dr. Who, which is a time machine.
(Trivia: The name TARDIS means "Time And Relative Dimensions In Space".)
But you can do that with Views. Easy-peasy.
No, you can't. Views leaves you stuck with something like example.com/news/200110. Pffft. Not very good SEO (Also, try reading that fumbled sequence of digits).
Not only that, but it was really hard to create a list of years and months with links to nodes... Until now.