Wordpress Archive page

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Since lot of people asked me how i have made my archives page http://stylizedweb.com/archive/ i realized that they are not really familiar with page templates so i looked over the web for some tutorials and i really couldn't find good ones, so this tutorial will shortly explain how to do it.

If your Wordpress blog is getting bigger archive page is really good to have, and here you can list all your posts, months, weeks what ever you want. If you are using some free template look in the theme folder because you could already have it, if you don't here's how to make it.

1. Open your index.php page and save it as archive.php
2. Replace the original loop code with some of these examples (it starts with <?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> and ends with <?php endwhile; ?> so everything between that)

 
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=100&offset=0');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<li><?php the_time('d.m.y') ?> | <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><? php the_title(); ?></a></li>
 
<? php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
 
<?php endwhile; ?>
 

This will list all posts like on http://stylizedweb.com/archive/ you can change offset (number to start from) etc, more on Wordpress codex about it http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts. This second code will list categories and month archives.

 
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<ul><?php wp_list_cats(’sort_column=name&optioncount=1′) ?></ul>
<ul><?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly&show_post_count=1′) ?></ul>
 
<?php endwhile; ?>
 

3. Add this code at the top of your archive.php page

 
<?php
/*
Template Name: Archives Page
*/
?>
 

4. Upload archive.php to your theme folder
5. Create a new page and Archives Page from the page templates

Of course if you don't like saving index file as archive you can start from the making a new page and adding all these things.

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Posted on 08. 03. 2008
Filed as Wordpress
By Dejan Cancarevic