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I've checked the forums, chewed some gum, done 1,000 jumping jacks and masturbated twice with each hand though not found a rock-solid way of implementing dates or other numerically unique identifiers in URLs for blog posts, each of which is created on the dashboard and powered by a tricked-out version of Easy News, an add-on block.

I found information on creating date-based URLs with concrete5 here:http://c5cookbook.com/recipes/make_a_blog...

It basically says the task will be difficult to do because of C5's global sitemap.

It doesn't say it's impossible, though.

I think the key to it could be in the controllers.

Here's my tricked-out Easy News' libraries controller, mcnews/libraries/controller.php:

<?php  
defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die(_("Access Denied."));
class McnewsPackage extends Package {
   protected $pkgHandle = 'mcnews';
   protected $appVersionRequired = '5.5';
   protected $pkgVersion = '1.1';
   function __construct(){
      Loader::library('controller',$this->pkgHandle);
      Loader::library('dashboardcontroller',$this->pkgHandle);
   }
   public function getPackageDescription() {
      return t('Blog manager');
   }
   public function getPackageName() {
      return t('News');
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And here's mcnews/libraries/controller.php:

<?php 
defined("C5_EXECUTE") or die(_("Access Denied."));
class McnewsController extends Controller
{
   const rssPagePath= 'tools/packages/mcnews/rss';
   const pkgHandle = 'mcnews';
    public function on_start()
    {
    }
   public static function getPackageUrl(){
      $pg = new Package();
      $pg = $pg->getByHandle(McnewsController::pkgHandle);
      $ci = Loader::helper('concrete/urls');
      $packageURL = $ci->getPackageURL($pg);
      return $packageURL;
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Am I on the right track here?
McCormick