Tidy Archives will display your archives in a practical way. It displays links to monthly archives together with direct post links for the current year, while for previous years it only displays a link to the yearly archives.
The format in short:
Month Year
- list of posts in that month
followed by a list of previous years.
So the idea is to have the archives displayed like this example:
February 2011
- Post 3
- Post 2
- Post 1
January 2011
- Post 4
- Post 3
- Post 2
- Post 1
2010
2009
2008
- Version: 1.0
- Requires: WordPress 2.9+
- Download (from WP.org)
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Thanks for creating Tidy Archives, it’s exactly what I’m looking for.
I do need it to do one thing, and Ive been trying to modify it for a little while, but now Im stuck.
I’m able to modify the plugin enough so that the archives display according to my projects style guidelines, but I need to show the actual post date of each article.
I think I need to add something to line 53 of your code to get the article post date to display, is this something you can assist with?
Either way, great plugin, thanks for taking the time to develop it.
Hope you’re well.
Hi Brent, I’ve made another version of the plugin which has the ability to display the date as well, you just need to format the date using a PHP function on line 53, as the default format outputs for example 2011-04-14 09:07:39.
You can find the modified version at http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/tidy-archives/branches/1.1/
Good blog with some fascinating information. I’ll be back.