How to create a WP Archives page like Steve's

[brooksr]

Would appreciate any help.

Is this some Plugin or custom code?

Thanks,

Brooks

[Dani]

It should be native to WP.

There are settings somewhere for it but I forget. I set all my blogs a while ago to do it so I forget off hte top of my head now.

[Adrienne]

I used a plugin called SG clean archives to get this affect because i really disliked the way wp handled archives. I took a bit of configuring to get it exactly how i wanted it.

If you want an example how how it looks (with my tweaking that is) you can see my blog.. Adrienned.com

Adrienne

[brooksr]

Thank you both for the posts.

Adrienne - on your home page, you might consider changing "List all post" to "List all posts". It would read better, IMHO.

Brooks

[Adrienne]

Originally Posted by brooksr

Thank you both for the posts.

Adrienne - on your home page, you might consider changing "List all post" to "List all posts". It would read better, IMHO.

Brooks

Ahh yes.. missed that one. Thanks

hope that plug in was helpful for you

Adrienne

[brooksr]

Actually, I haven't been able to get it to work. I downloaded, installed and activated SG Clean Archives and followed his instructions:

"To call the plug-in all you need to do is insert the following string of code where you want the archives to be displayed, ie your sidebar or on a seperate archive page.:

<?php srg_clean_archives(); ?>"

I went to sidebar.php and added the line of code as shown:

<div id="sidebar">
<ul>
<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>
<li>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
</li>

<!-- Author information is disabled per default. Uncomment and fill in your details if you want to use it.
<li><h2>Author</h2>
<p>A little something about you, the author. Nothing lengthy, just an overview.</p>
</li>
-->

<li>
<?php /* If this is a 404 page */ if (is_404()) { ?>
<?php srg_clean_archives(); ?>
<?php /* If this is a category archive */ } elseif (is_category()) { ?>
<p>You are currently browsing the archives for the <?php single_cat_title(''); ?> category.</p>

I don't know why its not working

Brooks

Originally Posted by Adrienne

Ahh yes.. missed that one. Thanks

hope that plug in was helpful for you

Adrienne

[da1prophet]

Originally Posted by brooksr

Actually, I haven't been able to get it to work. I downloaded, installed and activated SG Clean Archives and followed his instructions:

"To call the plug-in all you need to do is insert the following string of code where you want the archives to be displayed, ie your sidebar or on a seperate archive page.:

<?php srg_clean_archives(); ?>"

I went to sidebar.php and added the line of code as shown:

<div id="sidebar">
<ul>
<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>
<li>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
</li>

<!-- Author information is disabled per default. Uncomment and fill in your details if you want to use it.
<li><h2>Author</h2>
<p>A little something about you, the author. Nothing lengthy, just an overview.</p>
</li>
-->

<li>
<?php /* If this is a 404 page */ if (is_404()) { ?>
<?php srg_clean_archives(); ?>
<?php /* If this is a category archive */ } elseif (is_category()) { ?>
<p>You are currently browsing the archives for the <?php single_cat_title(''); ?> category.</p>

I don't know why its not working

Brooks

So what is it doing/not doing? Give some symptoms and it'll be easier to diagnose the problem ; )