Hi Dick,
I know there’s a plugin called Clean Archives that will list each individual entry on a single page. Maybe that can help you achieve what you’re looking to do, or at least provide some ideas. 🙂
You can even see it in action on the author’s archive page.
Clean Archives looks good, so I downloaded it and uploaded it to my plugin set. But the ReadMe instructions said to insert a string where you want the archives to be displayed — your sidebar or a separate archive page. As is my usual confusion, I couldn’t figure out which file to put it in: sidebar, achive, or archive.php.
BUT: In looking into those files, I found that the Default WordPress 1.5 theme evidently provides for a daily listing in lieu of a monthly listing, and maybe all I have to do is select that daily listing. There is code including “elseif (is_day())” and “elseif (is_month())”, such as:
<?php /* If this is a daily archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
<h2 class=”pagetitle”>Archive for <?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’); ?></h2>
(Unless that feature was added when I activated the plugin, and isn’t part of the Default.)
Could I somehow just change the option from monthly to daily?
A wiser solution would be to go and edit the archive.php file (no plural S at the end!) – and replace the_content with the_excerpt.
As a result, on your monthly archive listing no full text would be displayed, just (you guessed) and excerpt with a clickable title… so visitors can get an idea which one they would like to read 🙂
Dick, PLEASE upgrade to 2.0.4 before you do any more tweaking/plugins etc. There are some serious security holes in older versions.
[Ah…. nev’mind me – it’s the default 1.5 THEME you’re using…. sorry!]
