Archiving system
I’m unhappy with wordpress’ archiving system. I just want a mess free, no clutter list of posts in whatever month, rather than excerpts of posts. I tried doing something like that before, but then I realised that the amount of posts in my list is dependent on how many posts appear on the index, which at the moment is five. So what happens with my archives, is that five entries in that month is listed and the rest disappear, because I’ve neglected to put previous and next template tags in. And I don’t see the point of clicking a link just to see a list of five links. I can neither find a WP template tag or plugin that does this. It’s doing my head in.
Actually, Jem’s archives are sort of what I want. See, why can’t wordpress do that? I don’t think I’ll go so far as Jem to write my own CMS though…
So if anybody uses wordpress and knows how to do that/knows a plugin which will do that, man you have no idea how much I’d like to hear from you.
In other words, I’ve been working on a new theme. I’d actually put it up, if it werent for the darned archives.
Edit: I do believe the issue has been resolved, and so simply as well! Thanks so much Katy, Jen and Ruth for all of your help.
# Katy, 2 years, 9 months ago.
I’m pretty sure there’s a plugin called ‘nice archives’ or something which offers a lot more flexibility of archives.
As for showing more posts on archive pages than on the main page, that’s do-able. Put
$posts_per_archive_page = 20;
in the main index.php (not the one in your theme folder!) before the require(’./wp-blog-header.php’); line. Obviously the 20 can be changed - if you put -1 it displays all posts :)
Reply: Katy, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head with that line of code! Thanks so much!
# Jen, 2 years, 9 months ago.
Hrrm, can’t you do that with the Special Archives plugin? They’re pretty much listing the month/year and then the entries under it? Email me, if you want the plugin, as I’m not sure where it is on the Plugin Repository.
Reply: Thanks for helping out Jen, but I think its all good now :D
# Jem, 2 years, 9 months ago.
My archives are ace, yay!
Reply: Yay!
# Ruth, 2 years, 9 months ago.
Yes there’s a wordpress plugin - I use(d) SRG Clean Archives.
Reply: Oh yes, I’ve used that one before. It’s sort of what I’ve been looking for but not quite. Thanks anyway Ruth! It’s been a while since I heard from you!
# Suse, 2 years, 9 months ago.
Jem’s archives rock. Glad you got your archives all worked out now! ^^
And I can’t believe you plugged me on your blog. Can’t believe it took me so long to find out about it either. =P Thank you hun. =) (But why are the comments turned off? This way I couldn’t thank you on the actual post. ^^)
The blossom theme is lovely.
Reply Hmmmm, I just didn’t think it was a post that needed to be commented on, like it was just news or something, nothing really worth commenting on. Oh no probs about the blog. You know I wouldn’t unless something about it really struck me ;)
# Jennifer, 2 years, 8 months ago.
lol, i’m kinda like being on the same boat with you, messy messy messy so i’m just stealing some links from you … *cricket*
Reply Ahahahaha, I hope they’re helpful, they’re all such a helpful bunch :D
# Jenny, 2 years, 8 months ago.
I was going to suggest ‘KGArchives’ but I quite like the one that is linked here. :P