I love my Archives page now.. it’s so neat :D

I figured it out. I added the following:

to the top of the page to create a template and then created a new page.

Thanks!

I’ve ran into a problem however. I’ve created the page. But how do I link it up in my menu?

I’m not sure I fully understood the point you reached, but this is how is done: you have to create a new page layout by following this post. Then you have to create a page with this layout. And this page will have the name you want, based on your WP configuration.

For instance, I’ve seen that you are using page-slugs on your WP, so if you create a page named “Archives” (using any template, including the one you just created) your page URL will be

yourdomain.com/archives

unless you changed your page slug has been changed.

Does this answer your question?

I’ve ran into a problem however. I’ve created the page. But how do I link it up in my menu?

I tried my domain name/powerarchive.php and I’ve tried domain name/archives/ and other things and I can’t get the page to come up. I get a 404 error.

Help please.

Thanks!

Also need to add some page breaks. But overall happy.
http://www.kasdorf.name/wordpress/archives-by-date/

Congrats!

PS I don’t understand the “Sort by Category” above.

Stick with Zo’C and you will see it happening :-)

Kaz.

PS I don’t understand the “Sort by Category” above. There are plugins that do that, not necessarilly with options, but look at the “TOC” page. It even includes Pages.?
http://www.kasdorf.name/wordpress/table-of-contents/

I do agree that a single plugin that would allow the user to perform the sorts would be cool. Would mean only one page instead of several.

This is very useful IF it is useful for your blog to list posts chronologically. There are many Plugins and code examples that do that, but it’s not very useful to the readers.

It is true! It is helpful in the way that shows you a table of contents of the whole blog without the snippets of the post and all in a sigle page, but it is much more interesting to be able to browse category wise.

The reason I did my own archive in this way, rather than category wise is that this blog is dragging a lot of categories I created more or less randomly when it started (and I was a newbie blogger) and many of them have just one or two posts on it.

I sure have to organize myself on this matter!

Have you come up with a way to sort by category? That would be really helpful to millions of WordPress bloggers. Thanks!

It is a pretty simple variation to make, I’ll write my next tutorial on how to do it! :)

@Mitchell Allen - Great, Thanks!

Stumbled!

Cheers,

Mitch

What is useful is grouping the listing per category rather than date, grouping like-content together. Years ago, narchives was a template file that worked wonderfully, allowing the user to sort by date, author, or category, but it stopped working with version changes and lack of support.

Have you come up with a way to sort by category? That would be really helpful to millions of WordPress bloggers. Thanks!

I copied the page.php and called in archive.php and it is in the right folder and everything.

I open it up in the theme editor and where you say make sure it starts like this……….I have nothing that resembles it at all.

I feel like I am reading a different language. It can’t be this hard can it?

my archive.php

starts like this

“>

Read the rest of this page »’); ?>

http://www.kasdorf.name/wordpress/2008/creating-the-kazology-blogroll-part-1/

Same idea or method, just different page. (Blogroll vs Archive)
Disclaimer! I am not a programmer, just wanted to use this so hacked around until I got it to work. So no guarantees!
Kaz

@Michael Cusden -

I guess I don’t know WHERE you do this?? how do you start a new page.php??

Hi Michael. page.php is a file that resides in your WP installation. More precisely in (your_install_dir)/wp-content/themes/(your_theme)/page.php.

You have to reach that file via FTP, SSH or your preferred method and create a copy of it (in the same place) to get started. I hope it helped!

“This part is easy, you have to duplicate a file in your theme called page.php and name the copy with a name you like. I’ll call it powerarchive.php.

Open powerarchive.php and Make sure the file starts with this”

I guess I don’t know WHERE you do this?? how do you start a new page.php??

For me, the timing of this article is just right - I’ve just flipped over to my second calendar month of posting and my archives are a bit on the useless side. This code is just what I need to rev them up a bit and make them more useful!

Thanks, linked and stumbled!