How Can I Create An Archive By Custom Field

  • Resolved mashby

    (@mashby)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    Now that I’ve learned how to create Featured Articles and Blog Posts, I’ve stumbled into another quandary.

    I’d like to create an archive page that lists posts queried by a custom field. For example, I’d like if a viewer goes to http://mydomain.com/articles/ that they see only entries that have the custom field I created (Entry-Type) that have the value of “Articles” to appear in a bulleted list.

    I’m completely befuddled on how to do this. Anyone care to throw me a bone? 🙂

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  • Thread Starter mashby

    (@mashby)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Spent some more time digging and luckily came up with the right query in my searches to find an answer to what I was looking for. Here’s how I did it:

    1. In my themes folder, I saved “archives.php” as a new file titled “article-archives.php”

    2. In the article-archives.php template I added changed the template name from “Archives” to “Article Archives”

    3. I created a new page called “Articles” and chose “Article Archives” as the template.

    4. After that, I simply edited the article-archives.php template until it included just the entries tagged “Article” and tweaked the layout a bit. I found the article WordPress Archive that *works*: StepxStep Guide and Plugins very helpful.

    Here’s the final code that I ended up with for my article archives:

    <ul>
   <?php
      query_posts('meta_key=Entry-Type&meta_value=Article&showposts=-1' );
      if (have_posts()) :
         while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $category = get_the_category();
   ?>
   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>, by <?php the_author(); ?> on <?php the_date(); ?></li>
   <?php
      endwhile;
      endif;
   ?>
</ul>

    Hope others might find this helpful.

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