Hi everyone
I'm trying to display the list of years with a custom background image specific to each year. I need a custom hook in the html for the css to get hold of.
I've customised wp_get_archives to strip out the default <li> and include a new one by changing the "format" to "custom" and using the before/after to include an <li> with a class (see below). Does anyone know if I can insert the permalinks (or any other attribute/php for that matter) into my class tag?
wp_get_archives(array('format'=>'custom','type'=>'yearly','before'=>'<li class="PERMALINK HERE!">','after'=>'</li>
'));
If you can hand-code a couple of items to look the way you want, and paste the code here, I will try to generate that code from wp_get_archives() by exploding the string returned and preg_replacing selected parts.
Hi vtxyzzy, many thanks for your offer
This is basically what I'm after (I'm not on my dev computer but the hrefs should be the same as is outputed by using wp_get_archives):
<li class="2010"><a href="2010">2010</a></li>
<li class="2009"><a href="2009">2009</a></li>
<li class="2008"><a href="2008">2008</a></li>...
I've tried to recreate it using get_posts but I can't find details on how to return a list the same as "type=yearly".
See if the code below will do what you want:
$linkstring = wp_get_archives(array('echo' => 0,'format'=>'custom','type'=>'yearly','before'=>'|'));
$linkarray = explode('|',$linkstring);
if ( get_option('permalink_structure') != '' ) {
$pattern = '#/(\d\d\d\d)/?[^>]+?>#';
} else {
$pattern = '/m=(\d\d\d\d)[^>]+?>/';
}
$output = "<ul>\n";
foreach ($linkarray as $onelink) {
if (preg_match($pattern,$onelink,$matches)) {
$output .= "<li class='{$matches[1]}' >$onelink</li>\n";
}
}
$output .= "</ul>\n";
echo $output;
vtxyzzy, you're a star!! Massive thanks :)
Glad it worked! Now, please use the dropdown at top right to mark this topic 'Resolved' so that anyone researching a similar problem can see that there is a solution.
It is done! Thanks again.
Raw-m
