How to link to an archive in Wordpress?

[VacMan]

Hey everyone,

Is there a resident wordpress expert in the house?

I'm customizing a wordpress blog and have the look/feel that I basically want at the moment.

My current theme comes with an "archives" tab, and also archives.php, etc.

Basically it seems like I should be able to automatically link to my archives, or have them show up when I click on the "archives" tab.

Problem:

Right now I can't get the "archives" tab to link to a page.

It was originally coded to link to "/archives/" but that results in an error.

I re-coded it to link to "/archives.php/" and that didn't work either.

I have no idea how to get it to link correctly within wordpress.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
-Sean

[jamestl2]

Do you have your blog URL? So we can take a look.

[VacMan]

jamestl2,

Yea, no prob.

It's nowhere near being done, but here it is:

yummyweightloss.com — YummyWeightLoss

Thanks!
-Sean

[jamestl2]

It doesn't seem like you've set up your permalink structure just yet.

Also do you know what your archives page is suppose to look like? Is it already finished etc.? What exactly is going to be in the page?

One more thing to look at for now is the WP archives page in the codex:
Creating an Archive Index « WordPress Codex

[VacMan]

jamestl2,

You rock!!

Thank you so much!

Check it out, thanks to you it works!

Have a great one!
-Sean

[jamestl2]

Glad I could help

[VacMan]

Ack! Now my comments aren't working.

Instead of directing to comments, it's going to "respond" within the archives directory.

Does anyone know why this might be happening?

For reference:

Diet and Weight Loss — Tips to Lose Weight With the Foods You Love by Sean Bissell

Thanks for all your help!

Who knew setting up a blog would be so complicated.

[jamestl2]

What was the exact change you made to get the archives to work?

Also, your comments, posts, etc. were working correctly before the change, right?

[VacMan]

jamestl2,

Thanks again!

For the archives I changed the permalink structure within the general wp-admin and also added an archives page and linked it to the archives.php file.

I'm not really sure if the comments were working beforehand...

Any suggestions?

[jamestl2]

Originally Posted by VacMan

For the archives I changed the permalink structure within the general wp-admin and also added an archives page and linked it to the archives.php file.

I mean what was the exact permalink structure you chose to use? Is it custom?

Try changing it back to the default for now and we'll see what happens.


Also, did you create the archives page via "Write Page" in the wp-admin? Or did you use some other program?

[VacMan]

jamestl2,

Thanks again for your help, I wouldn't be this far without you!

I changed my permalink structure to:

Date and name based
Example: yummyweightloss .com/2008/01/23/sample-post

This change allows me to see the comment box, but I have no submit button.

And ontop of that this line of text (below) shows up below the comment box. Which shouldn't happen.

"There are no comments yet...Kick things off by filling out the form below."

I also tried switching it back to default with no luck.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
-Sean

P.S. I used the write page within wp-admin to create the archive page.

[VacMan]

Hey hey!

I seem to have magically fixed the comments problem!

Comment away!
-Sean