Blog Archive per user

No it didn't for me.

I found some threads that said to try that, so I did, and nope, no change.

Just to elaborate. If I change the UID in the contextual filters to be first.

The block on the blog user post page then lists all the user blogs with the blog count on the page.

ie
Kiwipearls (12)
Ledsoul (4)

But I want it to display the user of that blog, their archive of posts by month - and I only want it to count that user's blog posts, not every users blog posts.

Trying to make this as clear as possible so it is understood.

Thanks for your reply.

I still can't get this to work. Have tried everything suggested. But I still must be doing something wrong.

Does anyone have a step by step for dummies?

Ok I think I am one step closer.

If I create the block view separately from the page view as it's own entity, I can get the block to do the monthly archive per user blog.

But...now when I click on the links in the archive block for it to display on the page at blog/archive - it redirects to the front page.

I did initially have them in the same view but it was not working the way I have got it working now with the block view independent of the page view.

The only thing that is not working now, is clicking on the monthly links does not go to the archive page which is a separate view.

I'll start from scratch and try again combining the view and page - but it just did not want to work properly for me.

And how do you override the block information from the page information in a view?

Ok after losing a lot of hair from weeks of fiddling with this silly block. I have finally got it working and am sharing my step's with anyone else having problems.

I believe one of my problems was views block data was not properly being deleted from the database. So I manually went into phpmyadmin and deleted the records.

I then created the view from scratch.

Create a new view with page and a block.

Go to the Block tab

These will be your settings:
Title
Title: Blog Archive

Format
Format: Unformatted list | Settings
Show: Fields | Settings

Fields
Content: Title

Filter criteria
Content: Published (Yes)
Content: Type (= Blog entry)

Sort criteria
Content: Post date (desc)

Block settings
Block name: Archive
Access: Permission | access content

Pager
Use pager: Display a specified number of items | 13 items
More link: No

Contextual filters
User: Uid - Settings for this are: Provide default value: Type: USer ID from URL check also look for a node and use node author. When the filter value IS in the URL or a default is provided
Override title = %1
Content: Created year + month - Settings for this are: Display a summary. Sort Order Descending. Tick for Display record count with link .

Switch to Page View Tab

Edit Page settings
Path: blog-archive

I am too scared to touch this incase it breaks - as it is currently working. I know it could be a little bit better.

http://senilityguild.com/blog/kiwipearls

And here is the export view code for those who know what to do with that

 $view = new view;
$view->name = 'blogarchive';
$view->description = '';
$view->tag = 'default';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->human_name = 'Blog Archive';
$view->core = 7;
$view->api_version = '3.0-alpha1';
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */

/* Display: Master */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Master', 'default');
$handler->display->display_options['title'] = 'Blog Archive';
$handler->display->display_options['access']['type'] = 'perm';
$handler->display->display_options['cache']['type'] = 'none';
$handler->display->display_options['query']['type'] = 'views_query';
$handler->display->display_options['exposed_form']['type'] = 'basic';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['type'] = 'full';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['options']['items_per_page'] = '10';
$handler->display->display_options['style_plugin'] = 'default';
$handler->display->display_options['row_plugin'] = 'node';
/* Field: Content: Title */
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['id'] = 'title';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['field'] = 'title';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['label'] = '';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['alter_text'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['make_link'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['absolute'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['trim'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['word_boundary'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['ellipsis'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['strip_tags'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['html'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['hide_empty'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['empty_zero'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['link_to_node'] = 1;
/* Sort criterion: Content: Post date */
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['created']['id'] = 'created';
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['created']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['created']['field'] = 'created';
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['created']['order'] = 'DESC';
/* Contextual filter: User: Uid */
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['id'] = 'uid';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['table'] = 'users';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['field'] = 'uid';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['default_action'] = 'default';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['title_enable'] = 1;
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['title'] = '%1';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['default_argument_type'] = 'user';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['default_argument_options']['user'] = TRUE;
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['default_argument_skip_url'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['summary']['number_of_records'] = '0';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['summary']['format'] = 'default_summary';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['summary_options']['items_per_page'] = '25';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['break_phrase'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['uid']['not'] = 0;
/* Contextual filter: Content: Created year + month */
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['created_year_month']['id'] = 'created_year_month';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['created_year_month']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['created_year_month']['field'] = 'created_year_month';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['created_year_month']['default_action'] = 'summary';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['created_year_month']['default_argument_type'] = 'fixed';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['created_year_month']['default_argument_skip_url'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['created_year_month']['summary']['sort_order'] = 'desc';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['created_year_month']['summary']['number_of_records'] = '0';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['created_year_month']['summary']['format'] = 'default_summary';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['created_year_month']['summary_options']['items_per_page'] = '25';
/* Filter criterion: Content: Published */
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['id'] = 'status';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['field'] = 'status';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['value'] = 1;
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['group'] = 0;
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['expose']['operator'] = FALSE;
/* Filter criterion: Content: Type */
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['type']['id'] = 'type';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['type']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['type']['field'] = 'type';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['type']['value'] = array(
  'blog' => 'blog',
);

/* Display: Page */
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Page', 'page');
$handler->display->display_options['path'] = 'blog-archive';

/* Display: Block */
$handler = $view->new_display('block', 'Block', 'block');
$handler->display->display_options['defaults']['pager'] = FALSE;
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['type'] = 'some';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['options']['items_per_page'] = '13';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['options']['offset'] = '0';
$handler->display->display_options['defaults']['style_plugin'] = FALSE;
$handler->display->display_options['style_plugin'] = 'default';
$handler->display->display_options['defaults']['style_options'] = FALSE;
$handler->display->display_options['defaults']['row_plugin'] = FALSE;
$handler->display->display_options['row_plugin'] = 'fields';
$handler->display->display_options['defaults']['row_options'] = FALSE;
$handler->display->display_options['block_description'] = 'Archive';
$translatables['blogarchive'] = array(
  t('Master'),
  t('Blog Archive'),
  t('more'),
  t('Apply'),
  t('Reset'),
  t('Sort by'),
  t('Asc'),
  t('Desc'),
  t('Items per page'),
  t('- All -'),
  t('Offset'),
  t('All'),
  t('%1'),
  t('Page'),
  t('Block'),
  t('Archive'),
);

I can sleep easy tonight!