# How to store and display blog entries in /blog/YYYY/MM folders?

**URL:** <https://forum.getkirby.com/t/how-to-store-and-display-blog-entries-in-blog-yyyy-mm-folders/35622>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** v5, v6\
**Created:** [September 22, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/how-to-store-and-display-blog-entries-in-blog-yyyy-mm-folders/35622 "2026-09-22T21:04:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/how-to-store-and-display-blog-entries-in-blog-yyyy-mm-folders/35622/1 "2026-09-22T21:04:22Z")

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Writing a new thread because I’m somewhat stuck here. This topic is more complicated, it seems, and the [previous discussion](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/panel-how-to-store-and-display-blog-entries-in-blog-yyyy-mm-folders/24475) was for Kirby v3, so I think that having a new thread for the current and the next version makes sense - it’ll take me a few more months to have my Kirby installation ready, and I’m positive that v6 will be released by then. 🙂

What I try to achieve is a WordPress-like `/blog/yyyy/mm/slug` structure. Example `/content/` structure from my testing environment:

```shell
% find content
content
content/home
content/home/home.txt
content/blog
content/blog/2026
content/blog/2026/07
content/blog/2026/07/testpost
content/blog/2026/07/testpost/article.txt
content/site.txt
content/error
content/error/error.txt

```

I try to create the folder structure automatically, via `site/models/article.php`:

```php
<?php

class ArticlePage extends Page {

    public static function create(array $props): Kirby\Cms\Page
    {
        $date = $props['content']['date'] ?? date('Y-m-d');

        $year = date('Y', strtotime($date));
        $month = date('m', strtotime($date));

        $blog = page('blog');

        $yearPage = $blog->find($year);
        if ($yearPage === null) {
            $yearPage = Page::create([
                'parent' => $blog,
                'slug' => $year,
                'template' => 'archive.year',
                'content' => ['title' => $year],
                'draft' => false,  
            ]);
        }

        $monthPage = $yearPage->find($month);
        if ($monthPage === null) {
            $monthPage = Page::create([
                'parent' => $yearPage,
                'slug' => $month,
                'template' => 'archive.month',
                'content' => ['title' => $month],
                'draft' => false,
            ]);
        }

        $props['parent'] = $monthPage;
        return parent::create($props);
    }
}
?>

```

Now I wonder what I did wrong, because that does _not_ create subfolders - the resulting posts are in `yyyymmdd_slug` instead. And I can’t seem to fetch them. I expanded `site/templates/default.php` to try and read them, but it doesn’t work:

```php
<!doctype html>
<html>
    <head>
        <?php snippet('scss') ?>
        <?php snippet('webmention-endpoint'); ?>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1><?= $page->title()->html() ?></h1>

        <?php foreach($page->index()->filterBy('article')->listed()->flip() as $article): ?>

            <article>
                <h1><?= $article->title()->html() ?></h1>
                <p><?= $article->text()->excerpt(300) ?></p>
            </article>

        <?php endforeach ?>
    </body>
</html>

```

All I get is `<h1>Home</h1>`. Maybe I misunderstand how Kirby works (21 years of WordPress, 27 years of occasional PHP, still trying to grok Kirby’s basics), so I’ll probably need a hint here. 🫣

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/how-to-store-and-display-blog-entries-in-blog-yyyy-mm-folders/35622/2 "2026-09-23T18:59:54Z")

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I am afraid that your `ArticlePage::create()` method won’t get called for creating the blog page - as the `::create()` method is called to create the object/page, it isn’t yet the specific page model (`ArticlePage` in you case) yet. So the parent page (e.g. blog) will call in its `::createChild()` method the general base `Page::create()`. The page ends up directly in `blog/`. The `20260722_` prefix is likely just the sorting number from `num: date` in your blueprint. You could instead look into overwriting the `::createChild()` method of your parent page (e.g. `BlogPage` - or similar if you have that).

In your template example, `$page->index()` is probably not right. You likely render the home page with it (as you say showing `<h1>Home</h1>`, but your home page doesn’t;'t have the blog articles as children or grandchildren. So it’s either `$site->index()` but use that with caution as that can be quite performance heavy on larger sites. Ideally, you know your blog parent page and then do something like `page('blog')->children()->listed()->flip()`.

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/how-to-store-and-display-blog-entries-in-blog-yyyy-mm-folders/35622/3 "2026-09-23T19:37:33Z")

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Ah, I might have got confused between articles (“blog pages”) and the blog itself. From what I had read up to this point, creating an Article and telling the Model what its parent is would be enough.

So what I need is something like `site/models/blog.php`:

```php
<?php

class BlogPage extends Page {
    public static function createChild(array $props): Kirby\Cms\Page
    {
      // ...
    }
}
?>

```

and fill it with what was `ArticlePage::create`? The `blog` page itself exists - but I did not declare a model for that yet.

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