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1. elpimsn
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   hi there.
   I'm getting frustrated.. I tried so many things, but nothing seems to work the right way.
   what I'm looking for is something like this:
   i have posts of the news-category. now, I want all of them which are posted in current year (now 2010) appearing on the home/-frontpage. there's also a menupoint "news", which directs to the frontpage.

   additionally, I want submenu-items created dynamically of all past years where news-posts exists, to show all the news-posts of this specific year (submenu-item 2009 shows all news-posts from 2009).
   I tried it with categories for past years, but that's not dynamic at all.

   I tried it with wp_get_archives, but there's no filtering for categories.

   I know I could query_posts, this function accepts a category and a year parameter, but how could I implement this to have both the template and the menu dynamic?

2. MAS
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   see this http://wordpress.org/support/topic/417041?replies=10

3. elpimsn
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   thanks, that looks good. but:
   where would i have to put the code? into categery-news.php ?
   if so, what would be the best way to tell the loop, which is the year to display the posts from?

4. MAS
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   yss. put it in categery-news.php file if you want to get all details of news

5. elpimsn
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   ok, but what about the second question..?

   ..and what about getting the past years as menupoints? how can i set them up properly, in order to get the template file working nicely?

6. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Category mixed with data archives not so easy -- for instance http://sltaylor.co.uk/blog/wordpress-category-archives-by-date/

   Related:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-category-archive/
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-based-archives/

7. elpimsn
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you! The category-based-archives-plugin seems to be a good solution. But there's almost no documentation about it. Only the few template functions are explained.

   This http://mydomain.com/2008/in-category-slug/ doesn't work out of the box. Do I have to change my permalinks-structure? I have /%category%/%postname%, which I really need to keep in fact.

8. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Don't know the answer to that so have tagged this so the plugin author might see it...

9. elpimsn
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   ok, thank you.

   although i doubt that the author will be interested, as he stated on his homepage that he won't do any webdevelopment anymore, it might somebody else out there to give a hint here. it'd be very much appreciated!

10. elpimsn
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    just found this plugin: archives for a category by kwebble.

    i think i'm going for this one, hope it'll work

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