simple (i think) archive question

  • affacat

    (@affacat)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    I am having one Heck of a time figuring out something that seems like it should be basic.

    I have an archive page that looks and works exactly how I want it to for viewing both ‘by category’ and ‘by blog author’. BUT… I really need a way to have it display a paged list of all posts as well.

    Is there a way to do this? The URL seems to be what tells the archive what to show… how do I indicate ‘all posts’? I do not use an index page; my home page is dedicated to something different and is not as ‘bloggy’ as the rest of my site.

    Please help. I have spent days reading / attempting this, have read far, far too many documents on this… and still am just missing something simple.

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  • Thread Starter affacat

    (@affacat)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    i think i need to add more information. again, at this point, i’m totally confused.
    right now my archive page works wonderfully:

    http://site.com/posts/reviews/
    shows all the reviews nicely organized. replace reviews with any other category, and again, looks great. previous/next, sidebar, etc.

    likewise,
    http://site.com/author/johndoe/
    correctly, using the same exact template (archive.php) shows all posts by johndoe, with previous/next links, etc.

    BUT… for the LIFE of me, I can not figure out how to get the archive template to trigger and return ALL posts. (I’d still want them to be paged with previous next).

    I’ve read, seriously, hundreds of pages of text and really don’t know what to do.

    I’m even okay with making a secondary template, but even then, I still don’t know how to properly call it. I’ve played around with making a Page that displays all posts, but then the loop only returns the page. I’ve found code that gets around that, but then it all feels hackish.

    what is the proper way to call all posts? What URL works? So confused.

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