Have you look thru the following list of archive-related plugins?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Archive
You could create your own archive page as you want above:
category link
call to all entries under that category
next category
call to all entries under that category
and so on.
That might be on solution?
alphaoide: There are no plug-ins there to do what I want. Everything is Month-based instead of category based.
Jinsan: That sounds nice but I have no idea how to do it 🙂
Hi Aleister, take a look at the following I briefly cover creating a basic archive.php file
http://wrc.os42.com/?p=195
Then take a look at this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
So what you can try is this in your archive.php:
<h2>Catgory Link or Plain Text</h2>
<ul>
<?php
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&offset=0&category=1');
foreach ($posts as $post) :
?>
<li><a href=\"<?php the_permalink(); ?>\"><?php the_title() ?></a></li>
<?php
endforeach;
?>
</ul>
Or something along those lines, hopefully someone can make it seem more logical and clear, it’s still morning for me:)
get_posts works great for the loop. I have that part down.
What I can’t find is a function to stick all the categories in an array, letting me go through them each. Pulling out the entries in each one.
What I can't find is a function to stick all the categories in an array, letting me go through them each. Pulling out the entries in each one.
You speak in tongues 🙂
Can you find an example of this that can provide a visual idea of what you’re trying to achieve? are you talking like a tree structure? User clicks the cat, the posts drop down?
Sorry for the confusion 🙂 I would have posted an example, but I have not seen a single site do what I want 🙂
This is a static page I just put up: http://www.dagondesign.com/sitemap/
This is my goal. A page that will show all posts sorted by category. 🙂
With the category names linking to the cat pages, and the post names linking to the posts of course.
With the code you gave me, I can automatically generate a list of the posts for one specific category. My main problem now is just having it automatically go through all the categories, to generate this list. Know what I mean?
OK I see what you mean. I’m not a professional and half the time I don’t know my name but have you tried:
<h2>Catgory Link or Plain Text</h2>
<ul>
<?php
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&offset=0&category=1');
foreach ($posts as $post) :
?>
<li><a href=\"<?php the_permalink(); ?>\"><?php the_title() ?></a></li>
<?php
endforeach;
?>
</ul>
repeated that with a br tag at the end, and changed the cat number or are you saying it won’t let you repeat that code?
I know what you mean, and I may have to fall back on that method if nothing else, but I was trying to _not_ have to manually duplicate that code for each category. I was trying to find a way for it to automatically go through all the categories and run the code itself 🙂
Hmm fair enough, I mean I just did it and the only thing I had to modify was the category number – there might be an automated way to do this but I gave it ago anyway, something like this perhaps? The posts are all for that particluar category:
http://sekhu.net/wp/sitemap/
Remember you only have to put the code it once – after that the page updates on its own without you having to do so, so it’s not too much effort 😉
Unless I create a new category, and forget to update the sitemap code 😉
I know, it is not a huge deal. I will figure something out 🙂
you could always request a plugin such as this – it might be easy for an author to swap something like….
Ok i have a suggestion but would require begging and pleading on your part.
You COULD ask the author of Simple Archives or make a request for it swap outthe value for the date/month/year and to replace this with the category instead.
I think simple archives would be the perfect solution for you, if you could do that as it outputs the list nicely.
Make a request contact a few people do a run around, maybe someone will turn around and say “yeah, nice idea”
I just got it working 🙂 I ended up using ‘Nicer Archives’, cutting out about 90% of the code that I did not want (for the drop-down boxes, etc..), since I wanted something simple. The end result is a fully automatic sitemap. I even found a website which explains how to fix a permalink bug in the original code.
Check it out if you like: http://www.dagondesign.com/sitemap/
(There are still not that many articles on the site since I am moving them over but you get the idea – I did test with some extra dummy cats too and it looked good)
I really like the “Simple Sitemap” idea…any chance of someone posting the trimmed/corrected code?
