I currently use a separate archive index page on my private blog. But as the archivelist is also available on the main blog page, it is not really needed. But it opens more flexibility to users that want only one link to the archive, not the whole list list itself on the main page to save layout space or have other more important links there. You should keep it supported. A separate template for archive pages would open to render them more specific to give better feedback to a visitor that he currently not display the newest item(s) and provide backlinks etc., nice to have. I would like to have the additional RSS tags available at edit time (and also the support within the templates). Also: to be able to provide a trackback URL I have to "fall back" to the web editor. Any extensions to w.bloggar are known to support categories/trackback ? [content related to...]