[Plugin: Flexo Archives] Add Parameter to Return Instead of Echo Results

For those who want to call this widget (in standalone mode) from another custom plugin, I suggest this alteration at the end of flexo_archives_widget.php:

function flexo_standalone_archives ($echo=TRUE) {
    $archives = new FlexoArchives();
    if ($archives->standalone_enabled()) {
        $output = $archives->build_archives_list(
                            $archives->standalone_count_enabled(),
                            $archives->yearly_total_enabled()
                        );
        if($echo){
            echo $output;
        } else {
            return $output;
        }
    }
}

I’ve discovered the problem with creating an archives page (via creating an archives.php template in a theme’s folder) is that sometimes when you perform an update to a theme via the WP control panel, the process wipes out the custom files you’d created. To overcome that and future-proof the customization, I created a new plugin which simply adds a shortcode which in turn calls the above function to output the list. However, to maintain the correct order of content, the list needs to be returned instead of echoed.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flexo-archives-widget/