Does anybody have a way of using the channel:month_links tag (to create a list of links to monthly archive pages) that takes it's date point from a custom date field rather than the entry_date field? I have a channel where the user can enter details of journalistic articles that they have written; one of the channel fields is {publication_date}. I want my month_links to be in the vein of:
Articles published in...
- June 2013
- July 2013
- August 2013
- etc
so I need the tag to hook into the publication_date not the entry_date. So far I can't find a way.
I realise that I could insist that users use the entry date field as the publication date, but the downside of that is that I can't change the field name (and 'entry date' is not a good label for the field, it's misleading), nor can I add field instructions.
Any ideas?