constructing a dynamic archives page

  • chaz19

    (@chaz19)


    18 years, 6 months ago

    Instead of having the usual links on the sidebar for the months of past entries I would like to create my own archives page. I like it to be a page that would be automatically updated as the months go by, but listed all within one page. For example I’d like the archives page to look like this:

    Past Entries:

    (October 2005)
    post title, categorized chronologically and separated by bullet points.

    (September 2005)
    post titles categorize chronologically and separated by bullet points

    has anyone seen this done in any other blog site? would this be easy to construct? other templates already made so that the archives could be on one separate post? any suggestions?

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 6 months ago

    The Deafult theme does have an archive Page. Study it.
    You can also search for “nice archives”, “clean archives” and similar archive plugins/solutions…

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    18 years, 6 months ago

    Both Extended Live Archive and Super Archives are two very interesting archives plugins that seem to be just a tad bit more than what you’re looking for. Unfortunately, they could be a bit harsh to your server depending on how many posts you have, the quality of your server, and the average load of your server. If you don’t want to take any chances, study the Default Theme’s archives page and make a few modifications to it, as Moshu suggested.

    Thread Starter chaz19

    (@chaz19)

    18 years, 6 months ago

    thank you guys you have been both very helpful in finding many solutions to my ongoing projects. It is greatly appreciated

    Thread Starter chaz19

    (@chaz19)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    clean archives is exactly what I’m looking for, and I installed and activated the plug-in. I then went and created a page with the function <?php srg_clean_archives(); ?>,
    in my archive template page, and I did not see any changes. My archive page can be found at:
    http://www.chazsouthard.org/wordpress/?page_id=123

    there seems to be no changes… what should I look to next to try to fix the problem?

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    Did you put this
    <?php srg_clean_archives(); ?>
    in the page template you have (or created) or in the Page content area? – it should be in the template.

    Monika

    (@monika)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    chaz19
    you have to create a static page for this plugin,
    here is the simplest one, without any html.
    copy this code, change the html,
    save it as clean.php
    upload it to
    wp-content/themes/yourthemefolder
    static page

    than create a page –give him a title-nothing more–scroll to the Pulldown Menue-choose :
    cleanArchives

    save it and done!

    lG
    Monika

    Thread Starter chaz19

    (@chaz19)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    moshu- I put that code in a page that I created not in the page template. That is probably where I went wrong. Should I put a piece of code in the page template. Under my theme editor. And if I do how do I call up an archive page from the sidebar? I’m pretty confused???

    Monica — I copy the code that you gave me, saved it as clean.php and uploaded to my theme directory folder. Then I went to create a page but I cannot scroll down to the pulldown menu you were talking about. I also looked under advanced options and clean archives was not there… Im very PHP illiterate as you can see, and I’m not sure where to proceed.

    Monika

    (@monika)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    chaz19
    you are sure you write a page..?
    sometimes my browser let me know I create a page, but I write a post…
    because there are no advanced options if you create a page only if you write a post.

    Better I’ll show you a picture

    😉
    Monika

    Thread Starter chaz19

    (@chaz19)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    Monika — that was incredibly helpful and allowed me to get it to work right. Now I just need to fine-tune a few things on my own. I greatly appreciate all your help .
    many thanks 🙂
    chaz

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