Title: Manipulating the Archives
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Manipulating the Archives

 *  [aurash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurash/)
 * (@aurash)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manipulating-the-archives/)
 * I want to be able to create a more robust archiving system than just organizing
   arcives by the date.
    Check out my site for reference: [http://www.flixnjoystix.com](http://www.flixnjoystix.com)
   Basically, on the side I have news posts that maximizes at showing 8 posts at
   a time. At this point, to access the old news, you’d have to search using the
   search form in the left sidebar. What I wanted to do is to add a “older news…”
   link and be able to show say 20 older news posts and organize them by date, and
   then provide a way to organize them by title by providing an alphabet link set
   on the bottom. I also wanted to do something similar for reviews on this site.
   Where by clicking on the archives links and then clicking on an “A” link, you
   can see all the reviews that start with the letter A. Now, I was wondering, is
   there by chance any sort of plugin that would provide this sort of ability to
   the archives? Or am I going to have to bust out some php coding and work with
   the sql database in wordpress? If the latter is the case, does anyone have any
   advice or any good references I can look at to get this going? I appreciate any
   help. -Aurash [Check out flixnjoystix.com for movie and game reviews!](http://www.flixnjoystix.com)

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 *  Thread Starter [aurash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurash/)
 * (@aurash)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manipulating-the-archives/#post-120202)
 * Thanks for the link, but its not quite what I’m looking for. I don’t want to 
   have to navigate through each post to see things. Instead, I want an archive 
   that lists a number of posts, like the 20 most recent in a category, and provide
   an alphabetic type of link set so people can see a listing of archives in that
   start with the selected letter.
    basically like this: [http://pc.ign.com/reviews/](http://pc.ign.com/reviews/)
   It says “choose a games initial letter” and there are links for each letter. 
   and it lists all the stuff based on the letter you select.

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