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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Awesome! Just what i was looking for, thanks!
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good tutorial, thanks!
very useful, your archive page looks good, thanks
Yeah agree that this type of tut is fairly minimal on the web!
I had to find a theme and copy it for how to do it.
Thanks for the tutorial. Just wanna know how could I create archive of pages instead of posts?
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Hey
Can you tell me how your ordered your list? I’ve tried using the order argument for ordering the dates similar to yours but nothing seemed to work. Thanks for the help, but this little bit is driving me nuts.
James
What do you mean ordered list? This is ul with simple text for dates, please explain
Sorry, I meant how did you order it with the latest posts at the top. When I try to use the argument from the get post page on WordPress it doesn’t work. Thanks.
try this before foreach
<?php $myposts= array_reverse($myposts, true); ?>
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Thanks a lot, dude
The first code won’t work for me.
I always get following error message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING
could anybody help me?
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Try using this with in your list item:
<a href=”">
Sorry, my code elements were stripped. Hopefully this works.
<a href="">
Thanks, just what i was looking for too =) thanks
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Step 2 has some errors. Be sure to remove the space from between the ? php.
hi friend thank for these information sharing that before I am very confuse regarding archive template
But one question is remaining as show output on following link
http://stylizedweb.com/archive/
as a same effect possible in the presence of index.php mean as normal template (as regular template)
pls reply as soon as possible
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Thanks, just what i was looking for too =) thanks
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Thanks, just what i was looking for too
Step 2 has some errors. Be sure to remove the space from between the ? php.
Thanks a lot!!
wow!! I solved my problem. Now i have a archive page on my client’s site.
Thums Up!!
follow the above instuctions.. with below code … it’s working perfect!!
Archives by Month
Archives by Subject
Archives by Month
Archives by Subject
[sourcecode language="php"]
Archives by Month
Archives by Subject
[/sourcecode]