Management of large number of articles in a category

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adamderesz
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Management of large number of articles in a category

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Hello
Has anybody got a solution for maintaining large or very large number of articles per category?
Let's say there's a site with 1 article added each 1-2 days. That gives us 160-300 articles per year... of course each year we can do a site maintenance and move these articles to annual subcategory, or you can add them immediately in an annual subcategory (I do that on one of sites I manage myself for local photoclub), but there we have like 20-35 articles per category per year and only few categories... not much.

BUT, perhaps (lazy me) there is solution we could use to automate such action?
Lets say a small script that would recognise articles per category older than x days and ask right after your login if you want to move them in bulk to a named subdirectory/archive.

It's not a question of frontend presence, where it's simple - it's rather an issue for backend clean look.
Perhaps for a bigger number of articles in a category there might have beed sort of 'show more/show all' btn as it may be also hard to browse the article tree, then with few screens scrolling through single category.

Well it's' just a question for a tip how you solve it
cheers
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you could hav directories like ... 2011, 2013 and "current year".
At the end of year you will rename "current year" into 2014 and add a new "current year" to start over for 2015.
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It is planned to extend this by a paginated backend listing mode — in addition with flat article listing mode
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